Basketball America
Native American Basketball Invitational (NABI) 2007 Video
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Basketball Ceramic Snack Bowl, Made in the USA, Large 8 Size $36.99 Game day just got better! Perfectly sized for snacking, the functional ceramic basketball bowl is cast in clay with the familiar basketball texture, hand-painted and kiln-fired for a permanent finish. Measuring 8″ in diameter and 5.5″ deep, the bowl easily provides room for your favorite game-time grub! Dishasher safe earthenware, handmade in the USA. Please note: due to the hand-painted process,… |
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BASKETBALL HEADBOARD — COASTER 460166 $139.00 Description: Create a fun look in the youth bedroom in your home with a sports headboard. This twin sized headboard is available in a basketball, baseball, soccer ball, and football design. Clean straight edges and a gently curved crown create a simple style in these upholstered headboards. Choose your favorite sport for the perfect look for your child’s bedroom. The Youth Headboards Twin Sports H… |
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NBA Rocks Glass & Square Shot Glass Set – Primary Logo GDRGSS2201-5 Team: Hawks Features: -Set includes: Rocks glass and square shot glass with primary logo. -NBA team league collection. -Available in several teams. -Decorated with hand-crafted official team logos. -Perfect complement to your bar or game room décor. -Dimensions: 10″ H x 12″ W x 4″ D…. |
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American Ride $4.49 All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed…. |
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ESPN Presents: Jock Jams, Volume 1 $11.48 All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed…. |
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Shout Out Loud America $2.93 Song List: America the Beautiful, Lean on Me, Amazing Grace, Shout Out Loud, Kindness, I Believe I Can Fly, Put a Little Love in Your Heart, My Country Tis of Thee, Reach Out and Touch, The Star Spangled Banner… |
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Wincraft Iowa State Cyclones Hard Hat – Iowa State Cyclones One Size $26.00 Support your favorite team on the job by wearing this NCAA(r) hard hat from Wincraft(r). This officially licensed hard hat complies with OSHA regulations for industrial head protection and has a pre-lock suspension system to help provide a comfortable fit. The hard hat is decorated in the team colors, features an anti-glare peak, is slotted to accept attachments, and proudly displays the team grap… |
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Wincraft Illinois Fighting Illini Hard Hat – Illinois Fighting Illini One Size $26.00 Support your favorite team on the job by wearing this NCAA(r) hard hat from Wincraft(r). This officially licensed hard hat complies with OSHA regulations for industrial head protection and has a pre-lock suspension system to help provide a comfortable fit. The hard hat is decorated in the team colors, features an anti-glare peak, is slotted to accept attachments, and proudly displays the team grap… |
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Wincraft Nebraska Cornhuskers Hard Hat – Nebraska Cornhuskers One Size $26.00 Support your favorite team on the job by wearing this NCAA(r) hard hat from Wincraft(r). This officially licensed hard hat complies with OSHA regulations for industrial head protection and has a pre-lock suspension system to help provide a comfortable fit. The hard hat is decorated in the team colors, features an anti-glare peak, is slotted to accept attachments, and proudly displays the team grap… |
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Believe In Me $2.77 As far as Clay (Jeffrey Donovan) is concerned, coaching the girls’ high school basketball team is just a stepping stone to a better job on the boys’ squad. However, Clay meets a challenge he can’t resist when a town bigwig (Bruce Dern) discourages the Lady Cyclones from trying to win the state championship. Set in 1960s Oklahoma, this inspiring drama based on a true story co-stars Samantha Mathis,… |
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1932 Establishments $19.99 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Great Ocean Road, Saudi Arabia, Blue Shirts Society, Royal Christmas Message, National Assembly of Thailand, the Gardeners of America/men’s Garden Clubs of America, International Basketball Federation, Abbey Stadium, Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission, Mayfair Theatre, Ironbridge Power Station, Jonathan Edwards College, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Theodore Roosevelt Island, Alko, Pecora Commission, Camp Na’aleh, Scottish Rally, Portsmouth Airport, Hampshire, Manchukuo Yuan, Experiment in International Living, New Theatre, Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park, Independence Hall, Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, International Peace Garden, Bellevue Beach, Velma Springstead Trophy, Motley Theatre Design Group, Tashkent Aviation Production Association, Memorial Church of Harvard University, Shire of Monto, Sports Affairs Council, Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Astronomical Observatory of the University of the Punjab, Union Internationale Des Associations D’alpinisme, Madison Square Garden Bowl, Wilensky’s, Voronezh Aircraft Production Association, Union Latino Americana, Kifissia Ac, Wildenstein |
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1947 BAA Draft $38 The 1947 BAA Draft was the inaugural draft of the Basketball Association of America, which later became the National Basketball Association. The draft was held on July 1, 1947 before the 1947-48 season. In this draft, nine remaining BAA teams along with the Baltimore Bullets who joined the BAA from the American Basketball League, took turns selecting amateur U.S. college basketball players. In the first round of the draft, the teams select in reverse order of their win-loss record in the previous season, while the Bullets were assigned the tenth pick, the last pick of the first round. The first selection of the draft, Clifton McNeely from Texas Wesleyan University, did not play in the BAA. Instead, McNeely opted for a high school coaching career in Texas. The fourth pick, Walt Dropo, also did not play in the BAA and opted for a professional baseball career instead, eventually playing 13 seasons in the Major League Baseball. |
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1948 BAA Draft $38 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1948 BAA Draft was the second annual draft of the Basketball Association of America, which later became the National Basketball Association. The draft was held on May 10, 1948 before to the 1948-49 season. In this draft, eight BAA teams along with four teams who moved from the National Basketball League, took turns selecting amateur U.S. college basketball players. Andy Tonkovich from Marshall University was selected first overall by the Providence Steamrollers. Four of the first round pick, George Kok, George Hauptfuhrer, Robert Gale and Chuck Hanger, never played in the BAA. Three players from this draft, Harry Gallatin, Dolph Schayes and Bobby Wanzer, have been inducted to the Basketball Hall of Fame. |
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1949 Events: All-America Football Conference, Travancore, Basketball Association of America, Allied-occupied Germany $14.14 Source: Wikipedia,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by General Books LLC |
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2003 Pan American Games $26.62 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Gymnastics at the 2003 Pan American Games, Shooting at the 2003 Pan American Games, Swimming at the 2003 Pan American Games, Hockey at the 2003 Pan American Games, Volleyball at the 2003 Pan American Games, Basketball at the 2003 Pan American Games, Weightlifting at the 2003 Pan American Games, Bowling at the 2003 Pan American Games, Football at the 2003 Pan American Games, Diving at the 2003 Pan American Games, Judo at the 2003 Pan American Games, Boxing at the 2003 Pan American Games, Squash at the 2003 Pan American Games, Karate at the 2003 Pan American Games, Canoeing at the 2003 Pan American Games, Cycling at the 2003 Pan American Games, Triathlon at the 2003 Pan American Games, Water Polo at the 2003 Pan American Games, Taekwondo at the 2003 Pan American Games, Fencing at the 2003 Pan American Games, 2003 Pan American Games, 2003 Women’s Pan American Games Volleyball Squads, Racquetball at the 2003 Pan American Games, Archery at the 2003 Pan American Games, Water Skiing at the 2003 Pan American Games, Badminton at the 2003 Pan American Games, Beach Volleyball at the 2003 Pan American Games, Baseball at the 2003 Pan American Games, Handball at the 2003 Pan American Games, 2003 Pan American Games Medal Table, Synchronized Swimming at the 2003 Pan American Games. Excerpt: The 14th Pan American Games were held in Santo Domingo , Dominican Republic from August 1-17 2003. The successful bid for the games was made in the mid-1990s, when this country had one of the highest growth rates in Latin America. All 42 PASO countries and over 6,748 athletes pre-registered for the participation in the XIV Pan American Games. An additional 2,425 trainers and delegates attended. The United States pre-registered the most at 713 athletes; Saint Lucia entered the least at 6. The host |
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A Coach’s Life $9.99 A Coach’s Life is the story of one of the greatest high school coaches in the history of Iowa-an extraordinary man who unflinchingly lived according to the principles he taught, even when it meant losing a game or a championship-or the job he loved. Dan Kellams, a former Hipple athlete, offers an admiring, yet tough-minded glimpse into the life of Les Hipple-a coach who imposed stern discipline on hundreds of boys and, in the process, transformed them into champions. Kellams focuses closely on chronicling the coach’s years at Marion High School in Iowa, where he led his Indians to championships in football, basketball, track, and cross-country, giving the town its most glorious years in sports and many young men the unforgettable life lessons they would later pass on to others around the world. A Coach’s Life is a meticulously researched autobiography that shares many poignant anecdotes about small-town America during the 1940s and 1950s when a superb athlete died on the verge of greatness, a school controversy turned brother against brother, and a changing society trapped a great coach in the vise of his own principles. |
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A Coach’s Life $14.21 A Coach’s Life is the story of one of the greatest high school coaches in the history of Iowa-an extraordinary man who unflinchingly lived according to the principles he taught, even when it meant losing a game or a championship-or the job he loved. Dan Kellams, a former Hipple athlete, offers an admiring, yet tough-minded glimpse into the life of Les Hipple-a coach who imposed stern discipline on hundreds of boys and, in the process, transformed them into champions. Kellams focuses closely on chronicling the coach’s years at Marion High School in Iowa, where he led his Indians to championships in football, basketball, track, and cross-country, giving the town its most glorious years in sports and many young men the unforgettable life lessons they would later pass on to others around the world. A Coach’s Life is a meticulously researched autobiography that shares many poignant anecdotes about small-town America during the 1940s and 1950s when a superb athlete died on the verge of greatness, a school controversy turned brother against brother, and a changing society trapped a great coach in the vise of his own principles. |
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A Whole New Ball Game: An Interpretation of American Sports $26.95 Sports in America, particularly big-time collegiate and professional sports, have never been more popular. Modern sports events bring us breathtaking demonstrations of grace and power and provide the focal point for the leisure time of hundreds of thousands of Americans. But the world of sports is also increasingly a scene of moral corruption and physical abuse. In A Whole New Ball Game, Allen Guttmann examines the American fascination with sport and what that fascination reveals about our culture.Like the transformation of American society in the twentieth century, the modernization of American sports has seemed inevitable and ubiquitous. As Guttmann shows, American sports reflect American culture: our sports are secular, bureaucratic, and specialized, and as part of our democratic society, they require at least in theory an equality among competitors. The rules of modern sports reflect their evolution from earlier, less differentiated games. To master the skills required by modern sports, athletes train scientifically, employing the most technologically advanced equipment. And, like almost every other aspect of our lives, sports are quantified: our athletes and the media are almost obsessed with records.In tracing the development of modern sports in America from the rituals of pre-Columbian cultures to the late-1980s in this book, Guttmann discusses the failure of colonial New England and the antebellum South to influence the evolution of sports. He shows how baseball, a sport that combines premodern and modern characteristics, performed important social functions, helping to Americanize generations of immigrants. Examining basketball as the archetypal modern sport, Guttmann discusses its invention in the YMCA and its vulnerablity to corruption by gamblers, and he provocatively reviews the transformation of informal chlidren’s play into adult-sponsored leagues.One chapter of this important study offers and engrossing account of the |
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African Americans of Jefferson County, West Virginia (Images of America Series) $21.99 Jefferson County can proudly claim a large number of firsts when it comes to African Americans in national history. The raid to free slaves that served as a catalyst for the Civil War was led by abolitionist John Brown in Harpers Ferry. The first man wounded in the rebellion was Heyward Shepherd, a free African American and a Jefferson County resident. Pres. Abraham Lincoln appointed Jefferson County native Martin Robison Delany as the first African American field officer of the Civil War. In 1906, the Niagara Movement, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), held its first meeting on American soil on the Storer College campus. The first woman to become the coach of a men’s college basketball team was also an African American from Jefferson County. Additionally, the Colored Horse Show held in Charles Town was the first of its kind for African Americans. |
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Against All Odds: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and Second Chances $0.01 Scott Brown’s greatest win did not occur on a cold January election night in 2010 when he came from behind to capture the U.S. Senate seat held by Ted Kennedy for nearly fifty years. It began when he survived a savage beating at the drunken hands of a stepfather when he was barely six years old while trying to protect his mother. In this gripping memoir of resilience and redemption, written with clear-eyed conviction and unflinching candor, Brown recalls his difficult childhood marked by innumerable hardships. He tells the story of how basketball showed him the way out of family chaos. Later, as a law student and member of the Massachusetts National Guard, he was picked as Cosmopolitan’s “America’s Sexiest Man” and vaulted into the glamorous world of New York modeling. But the man who was once ushered into the backrooms of Studio 54 returned to Massachusetts to raise a family, and soon found an unlikely path that would lead him to national political stardom. Poignant, heartfelt, humorous, and profound—including details from the unprecedented Senate race and victory that captured the country’s imagination—this is the story of one man’s dream and determination to fight for a better future. |
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Against All Odds: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and Second Chances $0.01 Scott Brown’s greatest win did not occur on a cold January election night in 2010 when he came from behind to capture the U.S. Senate seat held by Ted Kennedy for nearly fifty years. It began when he survived a savage beating at the drunken hands of a stepfather when he was barely six years old while trying to protect his mother. In this gripping memoir of resilience and redemption, written with clear-eyed conviction and unflinching candor, Brown recalls his difficult childhood marked by innumerable hardships. He tells the story of how basketball showed him the way out of family chaos. Later, as a law student and member of the Massachusetts National Guard, he was picked as Cosmopolitan’s “America’s Sexiest Man” and vaulted into the glamorous world of New York modeling. But the man who was once ushered into the backrooms of Studio 54 returned to Massachusetts to raise a family, and soon found an unlikely path that would lead him to national political stardom. Poignant, heartfelt, humorous, and profound—including details from the unprecedented Senate race and victory that captured the country’s imagination—this is the story of one man’s dream and determination to fight for a better future. |
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Against All Odds: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and Second Chances $15.99 Scott Brown’s greatest win did not occur on a cold January election night in 2010 when he came from behind to capture the U.S. Senate seat held by Ted Kennedy for nearly fifty years. It began when he survived a savage beating at the drunken hands of a stepfather when he was barely six years old while trying to protect his mother. In this gripping memoir of resilience and redemption, written with clear-eyed conviction and unflinching candor, Brown recalls his difficult childhood marked by innumerable hardships. He tells the story of how basketball showed him the way out of family chaos. Later, as a law student and member of the Massachusetts National Guard, he was picked as Cosmopolitan’s “America’s Sexiest Man” and vaulted into the glamorous world of New York modeling. But the man who was once ushered into the backrooms of Studio 54 returned to Massachusetts to raise a family, and soon found an unlikely path that would lead him to national political stardom. Poignant, heartfelt, humorous, and profound—including details from the unprecedented Senate race and victory that captured the country’s imagination—this is the story of one man’s dream and determination to fight for a better future. |
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Against All Odds: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and Second Chances $39.99 Scott Brown’s greatest win did not occur on a cold January election night in 2010 when he came from behind to capture the U.S. Senate seat held by Ted Kennedy for nearly fifty years. It began when he survived a savage beating at the drunken hands of a stepfather when he was barely six years old while trying to protect his mother. In this gripping memoir of resilience and redemption, written with clear-eyed conviction and unflinching candor, Brown recalls his difficult childhood marked by innumerable hardships. He tells the story of how basketball showed him the way out of family chaos. Later, as a law student and member of the Massachusetts National Guard, he was picked as Cosmopolitan’s “America’s Sexiest Man” and vaulted into the glamorous world of New York modeling. But the man who was once ushered into the backrooms of Studio 54 returned to Massachusetts to raise a family, and soon found an unlikely path that would lead him to national political stardom. Poignant, heartfelt, humorous, and profound—including details from the unprecedented Senate race and victory that captured the country’s imagination—this is the story of one man’s dream and determination to fight for a better future. |
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Against All Odds: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and Second Chances $9.99 Scott Brown’s greatest win did not occur on a cold January election night in 2010 when he came from behind to capture the U.S. Senate seat held by Ted Kennedy for nearly fifty years. It began when he survived a savage beating at the drunken hands of a stepfather when he was barely six years old while trying to protect his mother. In this gripping memoir of resilience and redemption, written with clear-eyed conviction and unflinching candor, Brown recalls his difficult childhood marked by innumerable hardships. He tells the story of how basketball showed him the way out of family chaos. Later, as a law student and member of the Massachusetts National Guard, he was picked as Cosmopolitan’s “America’s Sexiest Man” and vaulted into the glamorous world of New York modeling. But the man who was once ushered into the backrooms of Studio 54 returned to Massachusetts to raise a family, and soon found an unlikely path that would lead him to national political stardom. Poignant, heartfelt, humorous, and profound—including details from the unprecedented Senate race and victory that captured the country’s imagination—this is the story of one man’s dream and determination to fight for a better future. |
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Alice in Chains Members: Layne Staley, Jerry Cantrell, Mike Inez, Sean Kinney, William Duvall $10.09 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Layne Staley, Jerry Cantrell, Mike Inez, Sean Kinney, William Duvall, Mike Starr. Excerpt: Jerry Cantrell Jerry Fulton Cantrell (born March 18, 1966 in Tacoma , Washington ), is an American guitarist , singer , and songwriter best known for his work with the grunge /metal band Alice in Chains , as lead guitarist , backing and co-lead vocalist , and co-lyricist . He has written or co-written every song in the Alice In Chains catalog except for “Queen of the Rodeo “, “Hate to Feel “, “Angry Chair “, and “Head Creeps “. He performs lead vocals on his solo projects, and is part of Alice in Chains’ harmonizing dual-vocal style. He resides in Los Angeles and spends time on his family ranch in Oklahoma . Jerry is currently on tour in North America supporting Alice In Chain’s first new studio album in over 14 years, Black Gives Way To Blue . Early life Cantrell noted in an interview that he was “raised on country music ” as a youth and that he admires the emotion conveyed in the genre. He also considers himself “half Yankee and half redneck .” However, hard rock music caught Cantrell’s interest predominantly, and he bought his first guitar in his mid teens. It wouldn’t be until the age of 17, however, that he began seriously playing the instrument. Cantrell would later cite musicians like Jimi Hendrix , Heart , Black Sabbath , and Queensrÿche as major influences. Cantrell attended junior high and high school in Spanaway, Washington and was a member of the high school choir which attended many state competitions. Cantrell was president of the choir in his senior year. The quartet would sing the national anthem at basketball games and win competitions with the highest marks achievable. According to Cantrell, his choir teacher and drama teacher were, early on, his two |
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Along the Cape Fear, North Carolina (Images of America Series) $11.11 Nestled between the Cape Fear River and the Atlantic Ocean, Wilmington, North Carolina, is at the center of the historic Cape Fear region. Incorporated in 1740, Wilmington has been called home by such notables as Woodrow Wilson, David Brinkley, Whistler’s mother, and Frank Capra Jr. Sports fans know Wilmington as the hometown of famed basketball player Michael Jordan. In Along the Cape Fear, local historian and author Susan Taylor Block explores this picturesque region of beautiful nearby beaches and charming eighteenth- and nineteenth-century buildings. Readers are invited to see why the Wilmington area has attracted everyone from heads of state, to history buffs, to directors of major motion pictures. |
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American Documents: The Mayflower Compact $15.95 The eagerly-awaited final title in National Geographic’s popular American Documents series completes the broad sweep of the collection by casting all the way back to our country’s original document of record, the Mayflower Compact. The date is November 10, 1620. After 66 days at sea crammed into a space about the size of a basketball court, the Pilgrims—as the 101 surviving passengers of the Mayflower became known—arrived on America’s shores. They were an ocean away from their home country and hundreds of miles from where they were supposed to settle in the Virginia Colony. To survive in the wilderness of this strange, new land, they would need some rules for governing themselves and their community. The document they wrote is known as the Mayflower Compact. In fewer than 200 words, it laid the groundwork for democracy in America. The Mayflower Compact includes: an engaging, interactive, and age-appropriate text, vetted by experts 40 pages generously illustrated with period artwork and archival photographs biographies of key figures in the document’s history the entire text of the original document and a complete list of its signatories excerpt from Mourt’s Relation, written by Edward Winslow and William Bradford, two of the colony’s founding fathers the charter of the Colony of New Plymouth Web links to further information a detailed glossary and index The core curriculum topics of pre-colonial and colonial American history are viewed through the prism of this cornerstone document and students are made aware of its relevance to their 21st century lives. This book is essential for any school, public, or home library. The Mayflower Compact acts as a valuable reminder of the time when America was merely an ideal being shaped in the minds of our forefathers, eager to escape oppression and create a better world. |
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American Documents: The Mayflower Compact $1.99 The eagerly-awaited final title in National Geographic’s popular American Documents series completes the broad sweep of the collection by casting all the way back to our country’s original document of record, the Mayflower Compact. The date is November 10, 1620. After 66 days at sea crammed into a space about the size of a basketball court, the Pilgrims—as the 101 surviving passengers of the Mayflower became known—arrived on America’s shores. They were an ocean away from their home country and hundreds of miles from where they were supposed to settle in the Virginia Colony. To survive in the wilderness of this strange, new land, they would need some rules for governing themselves and their community. The document they wrote is known as the Mayflower Compact. In fewer than 200 words, it laid the groundwork for democracy in America. The Mayflower Compact includes: an engaging, interactive, and age-appropriate text, vetted by experts 40 pages generously illustrated with period artwork and archival photographs biographies of key figures in the document’s history the entire text of the original document and a complete list of its signatories excerpt from Mourt’s Relation, written by Edward Winslow and William Bradford, two of the colony’s founding fathers the charter of the Colony of New Plymouth Web links to further information a detailed glossary and index The core curriculum topics of pre-colonial and colonial American history are viewed through the prism of this cornerstone document and students are made aware of its relevance to their 21st century lives. This book is essential for any school, public, or home library. The Mayflower Compact acts as a valuable reminder of the time when America was merely an ideal being shaped in the minds of our forefathers, eager to escape oppression and create a better world. |
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American Expatriates in Ireland: Marsha Hunt $10.09 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Marsha A. Hunt (born April 15, 1946) is an American model, singer, novelist and actress. Hunt was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1946 and lived in North Philadelphia near 23rd and Columbia then in Germantown and Mount Airy for the first thirteen years of her life. Hunt still remembers Philadelphia with affection, particularly the “Philadelphia steak sandwiches and the bad boys on the basketball court”. Hunt’s mother Inez was her primary parent and worked as a librarian in a local library. Hunt’s father Blaire Theodore Hunt, Jr., was one of America’s first black psychiatrists but he did not live with Hunt and she found out when she was 15 years old that he had committed suicide three years previously. Hunt was brought up by her mother, her aunt and her grandmother, three strong, but very different women. Hunt describes her mother Ikey as “extremely intelligent and education-minded”, her Aunt Thelma as “extremely Catholic but very glamorous” and her grandmother Edna as an “extremely aggressive…ass-kicking” independent Southern woman. While Hunt was poor, she credits poverty with teaching her not to be materialistic. Hunt’s family put a great deal of emphasis on academic performance, and Hunt did very well in school. In 1960 her family moved to Oakland so that her brother and sister could attend Oakland High School and prepare to attend the University of California, Berkeley, which Hunt still regards as home. Hunt also went to Berkeley, in 1964, where she joined Jerry Rubin on protest marches against the Vietnam War. In her book Undefeated she recalled that during her time at Berkeley “were sitting in for the Free Speech Movement, smoking pot, experimenting with acid, lining up to take oriental philosophy courses, daring to cohabit, and… More: |
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American Hoops: U. S. Men’s Olympic Basketball from Berlin to Beijing $30.18 Those who avidly followed the on-court acrobatics and off-court celebrity of the “Dream Team” in Barcelona in 1992 would hardly recognize what passed as Olympic basketball fifty-six years earlier, when the United States first played the game in the 1936 Olympics. In those early days of men’s Olympic basketball, many teams lacked basic skills, games were played in the pouring rain, only seven players could suit up, and the rules allowed only two substitutions and no time-outs. How this slow, low-scoring sport became the breakneck game that enraptures millions worldwide is the story of American Hoops.In this fascinating history of Olympic basketball on the world stage and behind the scenes, Carson Cunningham presents a kaleidoscopic picture of the evolution into the twenty-first century of one of America’s most popular sports. From clashes between celebrated egos and thrilling action on the court to the intense rivalries of the cold war and technological advances in everything from television to off-court sports equipment, American Hoops follows the fortunes of Olympic basketball in the United States and internationally as it developed and emerged as one of the most challenging and entertaining sports in the world.Cunningham traces how the modifications made by the International Olympic Committee and the International Basketball Federation have transformed the game of basketball over the years, from the Berlin to the Beijing Olympics. His book offers a remarkable view of the changing world through the prism of Olympic sport. |
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American Hoops: U. S. Men’s Olympic Basketball from Berlin to Beijing $29.95 Those who avidly followed the on-court acrobatics and off-court celebrity of the “Dream Team” in Barcelona in 1992 would hardly recognize what passed as basketball fifty-six years earlier, when the United States first played the game in the 1936 Olympics. In those early days of men’s Olympic basketball, many teams lacked basic skills, games were played in the pouring rain, only seven players could suit up, and the rules allowed only two substitutions and no time-outs. How this slow, low-scoring sport became the breakneck game that enraptures millions worldwide is the story of American Hoops. In this fascinating history of Olympic basketball on the world stage and behind the scenes, Carson Cunningham presents a kaleidoscopic picture of the evolution into the twenty-first century of one of America’s most popular sports. From clashes between celebrated egos and thrilling action on the court to the intense rivalries of the Cold War and technological advances in everything from television to sports equipment off the court, American Hoops follows the fortunes of Olympic basketball, in the United States and internationally, as it developed and emerged as one of the most challenging and entertaining sports in the world. Cunningham traces how the modifications made by the International Olympic Committee and the International Basketball Federation have transformed the game of basketball over the years, from the Berlin to the Beijing Olympics. His book offers a remarkable view of the changing world through the prism of Olympic sport. |
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An Actor and a Gentleman $26.95 He was a Broadway star at age seventeen. His first job out of college was the 530-performance run of Lorraine Hansberry’s groundbreaking play A Raisin in the Sun, in which he appeared with Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, and Ossie Davis. At age thirty-two, he became the first African American actor to play an authority figure in a major primetime network broadcast, which was also the first-ever made-for-TV movie, Companions in Nightmare. As impressive as these accomplishments are, they all occurred long before Louis Gossett Jr. won an Emmy Award and an Oscar and became one of the best-loved and most famous and respected actors in America.In this frank and revealing autobiography, Mr. Gossett looks back over his fifty-five-year career in theater, film, and television (with a little basketball, singing, and guitar playing on the side). He reminisces about a mostly happy childhood in Coney Island; tells wonderful stories about working and playing with the biggest names in show business; and reveals how, in spite of what might seem to many a charmed life, his road was often made rocky by the scourge of racism from without and personal demons within.Among the most treasured memories of his early Broadway days are the twice-weekly poker games with Poitier and Paul Newman, between shows on matinee days, and playing softball in the Broadway Show League, where he discovered very quickly that he wasn’t the only gifted athlete in show business. He tells the story of his brief but unforgettable romance with the highly talented but tragically short-lived actress Diana Sands, and he reveals how Shirley Booth kept him from being fired from the cast of a pre-Broadway touring show and got him invited to a lot of parties at the same time.Mr. Gossett’s bitterest memories include a day that still ranks among the worst in his life. Having arrived in Hollywood and being put up, for the first time, in the lavish Beverly Hills Hotel, he started out on what should have been a |
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An Actor and a Gentleman $0.95 He was a Broadway star at age seventeen. His first job out of college was the 530-performance run of Lorraine Hansberry’s groundbreaking play A Raisin in the Sun, in which he appeared with Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, and Ossie Davis. At age thirty-two, he became the first African American actor to play an authority figure in a major primetime network broadcast, which was also the first-ever made-for-TV movie, Companions in Nightmare. As impressive as these accomplishments are, they all occurred long before Louis Gossett Jr. won an Emmy Award and an Oscar and became one of the best-loved and most famous and respected actors in America.In this frank and revealing autobiography, Mr. Gossett looks back over his fifty-five-year career in theater, film, and television (with a little basketball, singing, and guitar playing on the side). He reminisces about a mostly happy childhood in Coney Island; tells wonderful stories about working and playing with the biggest names in show business; and reveals how, in spite of what might seem to many a charmed life, his road was often made rocky by the scourge of racism from without and personal demons within.Among the most treasured memories of his early Broadway days are the twice-weekly poker games with Poitier and Paul Newman, between shows on matinee days, and playing softball in the Broadway Show League, where he discovered very quickly that he wasn’t the only gifted athlete in show business. He tells the story of his brief but unforgettable romance with the highly talented but tragically short-lived actress Diana Sands, and he reveals how Shirley Booth kept him from being fired from the cast of a pre-Broadway touring show and got him invited to a lot of parties at the same time.Mr. Gossett’s bitterest memories include a day that still ranks among the worst in his life. Having arrived in Hollywood and being put up, for the first time, in the lavish Beverly Hills Hotel, he started out on what should have been a |
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An American Voter: My Love Affair with Presidential Politics $11.99 A warm, affecting, and ultimately hopeful tale of what it means to care about politics in today’s world. When Joan Sullivan was sixteen, her sister got married on their sprawling farm in New Jersey. Bill Bradley, the senator and former NBA player, was among the guests. Suddenly, magically, Joan found herself on the basketball court with him. An athlete herself, awed by his dedication to both sports and politics, she slipped off her shoes, bunched up her bridesmaid dress, and tried not to smile too brightly when he took her as a partner. Nine years later, Joan is in Des Moines, Iowa, working feverishly for Bill Bradley’s presidential campaign. Haunted by the death of her father and feeling disconnected from her life in New York, Joan throws herself into this strange new world, intent on getting a political education. In a whirlwind tour of the U.S., Joan campaigns for Bradley, taking to heart his message that idealism and dreams are not dead in America.But Joan is not immune to the perils of politics. In one embarrassing moment, she resorts to a shoving match with a Gore supporter in the streets of Brooklyn. But through her experiences, Joan discovers some larger truths: that defeat does not necessarily mean failure; that although Bradley will ultimately lose the campaign, she and others can continue to work for change; and that voting is more than participating in politics; it is a personal and powerful way to participate in life. |
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Anatomy of Body Worlds: Critical Essays on the Plastinated Cadavers of Gunther von Hagens $45 Since its Tokyo debut in 1995, Gunther von Hagens’ Body Worlds exhibition has been visited by more than 25 million people at museums and science centers across North America, Europe, and Asia. Preserved through von Hagens’ unique process of plastination, the bodies shown in the controversial exhibit are posed to mimic life and art, from a striking re-creation of Rodin’s The Thinker, to a preserved horse and its human rider, a basketball player, and a reclining pregnant woman—complete with fetus in its eighth month. This interdisciplinary volume analyzes Body Worlds from a number of perspectives, describing the legal, ethical, sociological, and religious concerns which seem to accompany the exhibition as it travels the world. |
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Ashland University: Ashland Eagles, Ashland University People, Bill Musselman, Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs, Ashland Theological Seminary $9.25 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ashland Eagles, Ashland University People, Bill Musselman, Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs, Ashland Theological Seminary, Fred Martinelli. Excerpt: William Clifford (Bill) Musselman (August 13, 1940 May 5, 2000) was an American basketball coach in the NCAA, the ABA, the WBA, the CBA, and the NBA. He was a fiercely intense coach who once was quoted as saying “defeat is worse than death, because you have to live with defeat.” Musselman was the second of five children. His father was an auto mechanic. Musselman played basketball, football, and baseball at Wooster High School in Wooster, Ohio. When he graduated in 1958, he was the school’s second all-time leading scorer. After high school, he attended Wittenberg College (now Wittenberg University) in Springfield, Ohio, where he played basketball for Ray Mears, who would later coach the University of Tennessee. In 1963, at the age of 23, Musselman was hired as the head men’s basketball coach at Kent State University High School in Kent, Ohio. In Musselman’s first season of coaching, the KSUHS Statesmen finished 14-5 and earned a share of the conference title. In 1964, after one season of coaching high school basketball, Musselman was hired to assist with the football and basketball teams at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio. In August 1965, Ashland’s head basketball coach left for another coaching position. With only a few months before the start of the 1965-66 season, Musselman was promoted to head coach. In his first season, at the age of 25, he guided the Eagles to a 10-10 record. Over the next five seasons, Musselman’s Ashland teams went 21-3, 24-6, 26-4, 23-4, and 25-3 (total: 109-20). While at Ashland, Musselman’s teams reached the NCAA Tournament four times and had 13 All-America pla… More: |
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Asphalt Gods: An Oral History of the Rucker Tournament $10.88 The real basketball deal–the inside story of Harlem’s legendary tournament and the pros and playground legends who have made it world famous.Earl “The Goat” Manigault. Herman “Helicopter” Knowings. Joe “The Destroyer” Hammond. Richard “Pee Wee” Kirkland. These and dozens of other colorfully nicknamed men are the “Asphalt Gods,” whose astounding exploits in the Rucker Tournament, often against multimillionaire NBA superstars, have made them playground divinity. First established in the 1950s by Holcombe Rucker, a New York City Parks Department employee, the tournament has grown to become a Harlem institution, an annual summer event of major proportions. On that fabled patch of concrete, unknown players have been lighting it up for decades as they express basketball as a freestyle art among their peers and against such pro immortals as Julius Erving and Wilt Chamberlain. X’s and O’s are exchanged for oohs and aahs in one of the great examples of street theater to be found in urban America.Asphalt Gods is a streetwise, supremely entertaining oral history of a tournament that has influenced everything from NBA playing style to hip-hop culture. Now, legends transmitted by word of mouth find a home and the achievements of basketball’s greatest unknowns a permanent place in the game’s record.From the Hardcover edition. |
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Atlantic Sun Conference $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: University of North Florida, North Florida Ospreys, University of South Carolina Upstate, 2010 Atlantic Sun Men’s Basketball Tournament, 2008 Atlantic Sun Men’s Basketball Tournament, 2009 Atlantic Sun Men’s Basketball Tournament, Whitten Soccer Complex. Excerpt: The University of North Florida (UNF) is a public university located in Jacksonville, Florida, and a member institution of the State University System of Florida. UNF was established in 1969, and classes began in 1972. It currently has an enrollment of more than 16,000 students and employs over 500 full-time faculty. The campus is located on a natural preserve in the largest city in terms of land area in the continental United States. The university comprises 5 separate colleges with noted business, coastal biology, nursing, and jazz programs. The current president is former Jacksonville mayor John Delaney. In March 2006, The Princeton Review ranked UNF number five in their list of “America’s Best Value Colleges,” and also named UNF as a “Best Southeastern College”. UNF’s status as a “Best Value College” was recently reaffirmed in the 2009 edition of the Princeton Review. The University of North Florida NCAA Division I athletic teams, known as the North Florida Ospreys compete in the Atlantic Sun Conference. The university was founded in 1969 after one thousand acres (4 km²) midway between downtown Jacksonville and the Jacksonville Beaches was put aside for the campus. Until this time, the only publicly funded institution of higher learning was Florida Community College at Jacksonville. J. J. Daniel, Chairman of the Florida Board of Regents, was instrumental in getting the University of North Florida in Jacksonville. Construction on classrooms and buildings began in 1971 and UNF ope… More: |
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Backboards and Blackboards: College Athletes and Role Engulfment $11.64 College basketball experienced its greatest rise in popularity during the eighties, becoming one of the most commercially successful spectator sports in America. With this rise came an era of scandal: recruiting violations, spurious admittance practices, and controversial treatment of student athletes. Within this guarded context of scrutiny, allegations of improprieties, and media celebrity, Patricia and Peter Adler penetrated the public front of a top twenty basketball team. The result of their efforts, Backboards and Blackboards: College Athletes and Role Engulfment, is a compelling inside account of an exciting, intimidating, and glamorous hidden arena. |
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Basketball Association of America: Baa Draft, Baa Finals, Baa Playoffs, Basketball Association of America Seasons $14.14 Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Books LLC, Wiki Series |
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Basketball Jones: America Above the Rim $24 It began with Magic, Bird, and Dr. J. Then came Michael. The Dream Team. The WNBA. And, most recently, “Spree” Latrell Sprewell–American Dream or American Nightmare?–the embodiment of everything many believe is wrong–and others believe is exciting–about the game.Today, despite the NBA strike, despite home run derbies, despite football’s headlock on network television ratings, despite the much-heralded return of baseball, basketball has assumed a role in American culture and consciousness impossible to imagine 20 years ago, when arenas were empty and the NBA finals were broadcast via tape delay in the wee hours.So what happened? How did a “black sport,” plagued by drug scandal and decimated by white flight, come to achieve such prominence? What are the subtle and not-so-subtle racial codes that define how the game is played and perceived, and the reception of its high-profile stars? What does the shift in popularity from the predominantly white, working-class ethos of baseball to the black, urban ethos of basketball suggest about contemporary life in America? What linkages exist between basketball and hip-hop culture and how did these develop? How has the arrival of women on the scene changed the equation?Bringing together journalists, cultural critics, and academics, this wide-ranging anthology has something for everyone, from hard-core fan to casual observer.Contributors: Todd Boyd, Kenneth L. Shropshire, Gerald Early, James Peterson, Susan J. Rayl, Davis W. Houck, Mark Conrad, Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., Earl Smith, Sohail Daulatzi, Larry Platt, Tina Sloan Green, Alpha Alexander, Tara McPherson, Aaron Baker. |
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Basketball: A Biographical Dictionary $95 From its beginnings at the turn of the 20th century to its pervasive presence in 21st-century America, basketball has grown into an undeniably important sport. The 575 entries in this biographical dictionary present concise narratives on the lives and careers on the most important names in basketball history. Entries include both classic players such as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Bob Cousy as well as more recently established and up-and-coming stars such as Carmelo Anthony, Kevin Garnett, and LeBron James. Entries for coaches such as the Boston Celtics’ Red Auerbach and Mike Krzyzewski from Duke University present the figures who have shaped the game from courtside, while the inclusion of female players and coaches such as Lisa Leslie, Diana Taurasi, and Pat Summitt show that basketball is not just a sport for men. This volume is an ideal reference for students seeking easily accessed information on the greats of the game. |
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Beloit’s Club Pop House, Wisconsin (Images of America Series) $19.99 For baby boomers who grew up in and around Beloit, memories of that era would not be complete without the Pop House. To high school students, this teen nightclub was a weekend music mecca. Friday and Saturday nights were reserved for dancing and listening to live music provided by countless bandsand solo acts. Owner George Stankewitz, born and raised in Beloit, became friend, father figure, and even boss to hundreds of area teenagers. From swing to pop to rock, notable acts to take the stage at the Pop House between 1946 and 1973 include such jukebox staples as Bobby Vinton, Johnny Tillotson, and Del Shannon, along with a tidal wave of Beatles-inspired local favorites. Summer softball leagues and championship basketball teams are recalled as well as the annual Turkey Bowl that continues to this day. And who can forget the annual chili festival with the crowning of a chili queen or a menu famous for its specialty sandwiches like the Snead and the Smiley? |
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Best New York Sports Arguments: The 100 Most Controversial, Debatable Questions for Die-Hard New York Fans $0.29 New York’s an incredible sports town, and the reasons go beyond its unmatched array of teams, star athletes, championship titles, and landmark moments.What truly sets the Big Apple apart are its sports fans and sports conversations. Whether the subject’s baseball, football, basketball, hockey, tennis, boxing . . . if something’s within shouting distance of the tabloids or the Times, New Yorkers are always talking about it. The Best New York Sports Arguments goes to the heart of it all. Examining everything from the underestimated to the overrated, from the heroes to the goats, Peter Handrinos presents a highly original take on the greatest sports town in America. Arguments include:The worst team of all time: the ’62 Mets or…?Is King George a tyrant?Namath or Messier: who made the greater “guarantee”?Who was the bigger brat: Connors or McEnroe?Lou & Cal Jr.: who was tougher?Jordan or Riley: who was enemy #1 at the Garden? |
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Bet the House: How I Gambled Over a Grand a Day for 30 Days on Sports, Poker, and Games of Chance $19.95 Over 30 days in early 2009, Richard Roeper risked more than a quarter-million dollars on practically every method of gambling currently available in America. Bet the House chronicles his wild journey. Follow Roeper as he travels from celebrity-filled Vegas tournaments to podunk dog races, negotiates illegal sports bets with shadowy bookies, trolls overseas-based Internet gaming sites, wagers against a radio comedian, haunts blackjack tables, and flips coins at a bar. As the wins and losses mount, you’ll share his suspense over that next big bet, the one that might, just might, get him back to black by the end of his odyssey. Bet the House also explores:•         What it’s like to bet money you don’t have, knowing that if you lose, you’re in some serious trouble.•         The worst referee’s decision in the NFL in the last decade, and how it cost the author thousands of dollars.•         The time Roeper won more than $20,000 on a single horse race.•         Why the slots are such a bad play, why Roeper hates baccarat, and why state lotteries are worse than any numbers game run by the mob.•         The 10 best gambling movies of all time. The true national pastime isn’t baseball or football or basketball. It’s gambling–on fantasy football, March Madness, poker, slots, the lottery, keno, church raffles, bingo, and more. Bet the House recounts with humor and pride the ultimate thrill ride of one American gambler. |
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Bob Boozer $83.7 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Louis “Bob” Boozer is a retired American professional basketball player. Boozer was born and raised in North Omaha, Nebraska and graduated from Tech High in Omaha. He attended Kansas State University, where he received All-America honors in 1958 and 1959. A versatile 6´8¨forward, he was selected by the Cincinnati Royals with the first non-territorial pick of the 1959 NBA Draft, but he postponed his NBA career for one year so that he could remain eligible to play in the 1960 Summer Olympics. During that year he played with the Peoria Caterpillars, where he won the National AAU Tournament title and earned MVP honors for the tournament. In the fall of 1960, Boozer joined the Royals with Olympic teammate Oscar Robertson. While Robertson took the league by storm in his rookie season, averaging a triple-double, Boozer contributed a modest 8.4 points and 6.2 rebounds as a reserve player. The following season, however, Boozer earned a spot in the Royalśstarting lineup and averaged 13.7 points and 10.2 rebounds. |
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Bones, Dean And Me $16.33 Bones, Dean and Me is the story of a boy who was recruited to play college basketball by Dean Smith of North Carolina and by Bones McKinney of Wake Forest during the formative years of Coach Smith and the concluding years of Coach McKinney. At the same time the athlete is pursued by the Morehead Scholarship Committee at UNC. He first accepts the Morehead scholarship and signs an Athletic Grant-In-Aid with Coach Smith only to “flee” to Wake Forest at the last minute because of a multitude of life’s challenges. In North Carolina his path was crossed by Billy Cunningham, Larry Brown and a host of Tarheel greats. He transferred to Wake Forest and played with Brian Piccalo and for Wake Forest during the 1965, 1966 and 1967 seasons. The question is posed within, “why would any sensible young man eschew Coach Smith and the Morehead Scholarship (one of the nation’s elite awards) and an opportunity to play in the Final Four in favor of playing with Wake Forest?” The second half of the book involves stories along “tobacco road” playing Division I basketball not only in the ACC but also at Ohio State, Purdue, Cincinnati and at many venues such as the Palestra, Cameron Indoor and St. John arena. It is believed that this is a story never told; i.e. the story of an atypical recruit at a time in America just before integration and just as big time college basketball became “big time”. |
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Bounce the Balls and They Will Come: A Coach’s Passion for the Great Commission $7.99 Evangelism has many forms for today’s Christians. Some use tracts, others use memorized plans of salvation. Betty Wiseman uses a basketball.Sports evangelism has become increasingly popular in Third-World countries. Betty Wiseman, a Hall of Fame coach, is a walking, talking, dribbling testimony of this. She has led sports teams to numerous countries in South America and Europe and used a bouncing ball to tell a lost world about the love of Christ. Through her globe-trotting adventures, you will see just how simple sharing your faith can be when you use something you so dearly enjoy as a catalyst for evangelism. |
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Bounce the Balls and They Will Come: A Coach’s Passion for the Great Commission $9.99 Evangelism has many forms for today’s Christians. Some use tracts, others use memorized plans of salvation. Betty Wiseman uses a basketball.Sports evangelism has become increasingly popular in Third-World countries. Betty Wiseman, a Hall of Fame coach, is a walking, talking, dribbling testimony of this. She has led sports teams to numerous countries in South America and Europe and used a bouncing ball to tell a lost world about the love of Christ. Through her globe-trotting adventures, you will see just how simple sharing your faith can be when you use something you so dearly enjoy as a catalyst for evangelism. |
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British Expatriate Basketball People: Luol Deng, Tony Dorsey, Ajou Deng, Steve Bucknall, Olu Babalola $8.59 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Luol Michael Deng (born April 16, 1985 in Wau, Sudan) is a Sudanese-British professional basketball player for the National Basketball Association’s Chicago Bulls and the Great Britain national basketball team. He plays the small forward position. Deng is a member of the Dinka ethnic group. When he was young, his father Aldo, a member of the Sudanese parliament, moved the family to Egypt to escape the Second Sudanese Civil War. In Egypt, they met former NBA center Manute Bol, another Dinka, who taught Deng’s older brother, Ajou Deng, how to play basketball while also serving as a mentor for Luol himself. When they were granted political asylum, his family emigrated to Brixton South London in England. Deng developed an interest in soccer and basketball, and was invited to join England’s 15-and-under teams in both sports. During this time, he began his career at Brixton Basketball Club. At the age of 13, he played for England’s squad in the European Junior Men’s Qualifying Tournament, averaging 40 points and 14 rebounds. He was named the MVP of the tournament. Next, he led England to the finals of the European Junior National Tournament, where he averaged 34 points and earned another MVP award. At the age of 14, Luol moved to the United States to play basketball at Blair Academy in New Jersey, where one of his teammates was future NBA player Charlie Villanueva. Deng was also named a Tri-Captain at Blair along with Charlie Villanueva . During his senior year, Deng was considered the second most promising high school senior in America after LeBron James. He was named First Team All-America by Parade Magazine and USA Today, and was selected to play in the McDonald’s High School All-America game, but could not play due to a foot i… More: |
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Brookline, Pennsylvania (Images of America Series) $21.99 Brookline was settled in the mid-eighteenth century as a farming community along Pioneer Avenue, a state road from Pittsburgh to Washington. The West Liberty Development Company and the opening of the Liberty Tunnels, in 1924, helped this Pittsburgh neighborhood grow. The area became a choice locale for city workers and others to settle. It is also the home and birthplace of many notable persons, including basketball phenomenon Suzie McConnell and radio legend Craig “Porky” Chedwick. Today, Brookline is Pittsburgh’s second largest neighborhood, boasting character, charm, and convenience. |
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Buffalo Braves Owners $8.69 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: John Young Brown, Jr. (born December 28, 1933) is a politician, entrepreneur, and businessman from the U.S. state of Kentucky. He served as the 59th governor of Kentucky from 1979 to 1983, although he may be best-known for building Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) into a multi-million dollar restaurant chain. Currently single, he has been married three times, the second time to former Miss America Phyllis George. Among his children are news anchor Pamela Ashley Brown and former Kentucky Secretary of State John Y. Brown, III. The son of a U.S. congressman, Brown’s talent for business became evident in college, where he made a substantial amount of money selling Encyclopedia Britannica sets. After briefly practicing law with his father, he purchased Kentucky Fried Chicken from founder Harland Sanders in 1964. Brown turned the company into a world-wide success, and sold his interest in the company for a huge profit in 1971. He then invested in several other restaurant ventures, but none matched the success of KFC. During the 1970s, he also owned, at various times, three professional basketball teams the American Basketball Association’s Kentucky Colonels, and the National Basketball Association’s Buffalo Braves and Boston Celtics. Despite showing little inclination toward politics, Brown surprised political observers by declaring his candidacy for governor in 1979. A strong media campaign funded by his personal fortune allowed him to win the Democratic primary and go on to defeat former Republican governor Louie B. Nunn in the general election. Brown delivered on his campaign promise to run the state government like a business, which enabled him to guide the state through difficult economic times without raising taxes. Because he o… More: |
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Bulldogs Forever: A History Of Albuquerque High School And A Memoir Of The Class Of 1954 $15.94 Perhaps nowhere in America did three distinct and diverse cultures create such a colorful tapestry of the social fabric which forms the backdrop of this book.Bulldogs Forever is a history of a New Mexico school, Albuquerque High School, from its founding in 1879 to the author’s graduation in 1954. The book effectively relates the reflections of teenagers from the waning pioneer days of the late 19th century to the Golden Era that followed World War II.The author, an outstanding athlete, relates how the team sports of football, basketball and baseball played a major role in the feeling of togetherness, belonging and accomplishment in a school of culturally diverse students.Bulldogs Forever pays tribute to teachers, coaches, teammates and students in a nostalgic look at high school life.His first book, SECRETS, A Novel of Golf and Politics, published in 2000, is a mystery which is principally set in New Mexico and features a creative and memorable surprise ending. The author has also written a history of his high school that concludes with a memoir of his three years there in the 50s.Buster was a two-time NCAA All-American in Track & Field, a member of four U.S. Track & Field Teams and a gold medal winner and record holder in the javelin in the 1959 Pan American Games. He is the founder of REDISCOVER AMERICA!, which is a passionate call to re-establish the moral and ethical values of the 50s. |
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Buzz Monkey $0.99 Top Kiernan has been doing all right. He owns Polymath, a thriving research firm which he runs from his home—the 1930s-era schoolhouse he’s renovating just outside of Athens, Georgia. He’s got a bedroom in a basketball court, a handful of flannel shirts, and a splendid collection of tops. He also has a serious habit: Top is addicted to the adrenaline buzz of danger, though periodic perilous errands to Latin America for Shaw’s Mercantile help him handle that. Only now Top’s long-best friend, Dee Lane, has disappeared with a fortune that belongs to Atlanta drug lord Raoul Menes. And in Buzz Monkey’s shifty world of hazardous secrets and hostile camps, Top finds himself the target not merely of Menes but also of ambitious DEA agents, a retired IRA assassin and his heavily armedaughter, a gang of meth-cooking rednecks, an urbane CIA recruiter, and two hired killers in sharkskin suits because everyone thinks Dee left the money with him. Top knows he is working against time and it’s going to take more than adrenaline to survive the maneuvers of all the players in the dangerous game that this deftly plotted debut novel brings unpredictably to a stunning, just, and explosive finish. |
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Carolina Cougars Players: Calvin Fowler, Billy Cunningham, Gary Bradds, Doug Moe, Jim Mcdaniels, Steve Jones, Mack Calvin, Wayne Hightower $19.99 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Calvin Fowler, Billy Cunningham, Gary Bradds, Doug Moe, Jim Mcdaniels, Steve Jones, Mack Calvin, Wayne Hightower, Joe Caldwell, Tom Owens, Jim Chones, Gene Littles, Gus Gerard, Bob Verga, Wendell Ladner, George Lehmann, George Carter, Stew Johnson, Randolph Mahaffey, Larry Miller, Ted Mcclain, Ira Harge, Ed Manning, Bob Warren, Ollie Taylor, Marv Roberts, Dave Newmark, Vann Williford, Walter Roger Brown, Warren Davis, George Stone, Mike Lewis, Randy Denton, Dennis Wuycik, George Peeples, Frank Card, Bill Bunting, Steve Kramer, Rich Johnson. Excerpt: William Carl “Bill” Bunting (born August 26, 1947 in New Bern, North Carolina ) is a retired American basketball player. He played collegiately for the University of North Carolina . He was selected by the New York Knicks in the 2nd round (26th pick overall) of the 1969 NBA Draft and by the Miami Floridians in the 1969 ABA Draft. He played for the Carolina Cougars (1969-70), New York Nets (1970) and Virginia Squires (1970-72) in the American Basketball Association for 145 games. Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Billy Cunningham item Career stats (NBA and ABA) item Points : 16,310 item Rebounds : 7,981 item Assists : 3,305 item Career highlights and awards item Basketball Hall of Fame as player William John “Billy” Cunningham (born June 3, 1943) is an American former professional basketball player and coach, who was nicknamed the Kangaroo Kid . Beginnings Billy Cunningham was born in Brooklyn , New York. His fame began while he was playing at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, where he was the MVP in the Brooklyn League in 1961. That year, he was the First-Team All-New York City, and a member of the Parade Magazine All-America Team. College career Cunningham then went to the |
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Chuck Taylor, All Star: The True Story of the Man behind the Most Famous Athletic Shoe in History $0.25 His is the name on the label of the legendary Converse All-Star basketball shoe. Though the shoe has been worn by hundreds of millions, few, if any, know a thing about the man behind the name. Some even believe that there is no such person, that he is a marketer’s fabrication like Betty Crocker. But “Chuck Taylor” was more than a rubber-soled, double-wall canvas-body shoe with a circular ankle patch, with a bright blue star in the middle and a signature across it. He may not have been a Michael Jordan, but Chuck Taylor did earn the right to be the face behind the most popular shoe in basketball.For this first-ever biography, Abraham Aamidor went on a three-year quest to learn the true story of Chuck Taylor. The search took him across the country, tracking down leads, and separating truth from legend—discovering that the truth, warts and all, was much more interesting than the myth. He found Chuck involved with “industrial league” basketball in the 1920s, working as a wartime coach with the Army Air Force, and organizing clinic after clinic. He was a true “ambassador of basketball” in Europe and South America as well as all over the United States. And he was, to be sure, a consummate marketing genius. He was elected to the Sporting Goods Hall of Fame before his induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. This biography makes it clear that he belongs in both. |
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Clearfield, Utah: Companies Based in Clearfield, Utah, Lifetime Products, Utah State Route 103, Freeport Center $8.41 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Lifetime Products Inc. is the world’s largest manufacturer of blow-molded polyethylene folding chairs and tables, picnic tables, and home basketball equipment. They also manufacture other consumer products, including sheds, trailers, and lawn and garden items, along with OEM steel and plastic items for other companies. A Lifetime Mammoth Basketball StandardLifetime Products uses polyethylene blow molding and metal forming technology to create a variety of consumer and industrial products. Lifetime has the largest single-point blow molded plastics facility in North America, occupying 2,200,000 square feet (204,000 m), and employs over 1500 people worldwide. Lifetime Products produces the only folding chair to comply with the Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturer’s Association (BIFMA), which defines durability standards testing of commercial-grade chairs. Lifetime also complies with the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), and their basketball systems are evaluated by the American Society for Testing and Materials. Lifetime is headquartered in the Freeport Center in Clearfield, Utah, United States. Vertically integrated manufacturing facilities also reside in Clearfield, with international facilities in Monterrey, Mexico and Xiamen, China. Lifetime products are available in more than 50 countries. In the United States, Lifetime basketball systems are in sporting goods stores such as Sports Authority, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Academy Sports and Outdoors, MC Sports and Modells, as well as retailers such as Wal-Mart and Target, and in warehouse clubs such as Sam’s Club, Costco, BJs, and in regional stores. Lifetime tables and chairs are available at stores including Sam’s Club, Costco, Wal-Mart, Home Depot, an… More: |
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Coach Wooden’s Leadership Game Plan for Success: 12 Lessons for Extraordinary Performance and Personal Excellence $7.31 Take a one-on-one leadership course with Coach John Wooden himself!“John Wooden is a monumental figure in American sports, yet his legacy of leadership transcends athletics and spans generations. Coach Wooden instills in others a sense of pride, a commitment to ethics and a respect for teamwork. These fundamental principles translate readily from the sports arena to business, management, and leadership.”Although John Wooden gained fame at UCLA as an illustriousbasketball coach, his leadership values and professional and personal behavior are just as applicable in business. Team-building in any context—especially in today’s hyper-competitive and fast-changing environment—is difficult. That Coach Wooden was able to achieve such consistent successes at the highest levels over his 40-year career is a tribute to the robustness of his ideas.”—JUDY D. OLIANJohn E. Anderson Chair in Management and Dean, UCLA Anderson School of ManagementJohn Wooden (1910-2010), guided the UCLA Bruins to ten NCAA basketball championships over a 12-year period, including four perfect seasons and an 88-game winning streak. He was named ESPN’s “Greatest Coach of the 20th Century” and voted “#1 Coach of All Time” by The Sporting News. Sports Illustrated said it best when they said: “There’s never been a finer man in American sports than John Wooden, or a finer coach.” In 2003 John Wooden was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.Steve Jamison is America’s foremost author and authority on the life and philosophy of John Wooden. Mr. Jamison is a consultant to the UCLA Anderson Scool of Business’ John Wooden Global Leadership Program. He has collaborated with Coach Wooden on an award-winning PBS presentation as well as several books, including the classic book on teaching and mentoring, Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections. |
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Coach Wooden’s Leadership Game Plan for Success: 12 Lessons for Extraordinary Performance and Personal Excellence $26.95 Take a one-on-one leadership course with Coach John Wooden himself!“John Wooden is a monumental figure in American sports, yet his legacy of leadership transcends athletics and spans generations. Coach Wooden instills in others a sense of pride, a commitment to ethics and a respect for teamwork. These fundamental principles translate readily from the sports arena to business, management, and leadership.”Although John Wooden gained fame at UCLA as an illustriousbasketball coach, his leadership values and professional and personal behavior are just as applicable in business. Team-building in any context—especially in today’s hyper-competitive and fast-changing environment—is difficult. That Coach Wooden was able to achieve such consistent successes at the highest levels over his 40-year career is a tribute to the robustness of his ideas.”—JUDY D. OLIANJohn E. Anderson Chair in Management and Dean, UCLA Anderson School of ManagementJohn Wooden (1910-2010), guided the UCLA Bruins to ten NCAA basketball championships over a 12-year period, including four perfect seasons and an 88-game winning streak. He was named ESPN’s “Greatest Coach of the 20th Century” and voted “#1 Coach of All Time” by The Sporting News. Sports Illustrated said it best when they said: “There’s never been a finer man in American sports than John Wooden, or a finer coach.” In 2003 John Wooden was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.Steve Jamison is America’s foremost author and authority on the life and philosophy of John Wooden. Mr. Jamison is a consultant to the UCLA Anderson Scool of Business’ John Wooden Global Leadership Program. He has collaborated with Coach Wooden on an award-winning PBS presentation as well as several books, including the classic book on teaching and mentoring, Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections. |
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College athletics conferences: Ivy League, Northeast Conference, Atlantic 10 Conference, Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, Big Ten Conference $24.3 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ivy League, Northeast Conference, Atlantic 10 Conference, Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, Big Ten Conference, North Coast Athletic Conference, Ncaa Division I Fcs Independent Schools, Southwestern Athletic Conference, Ohio Valley Conference, Patriot League, Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, Big Sky Conference, Southern Conference, Big South Conference, Colonial Athletic Association, Empire 8, Horizon League, Cascade Collegiate Conference, List of Ncaa Conferences, Big West Conference, the Summit League, Great Rivers Athletic Conference, List of Sec National Champions, Atlantic Central Football Conference, Missouri Valley Conference, Southland Conference, Atlantic Sun Conference, Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association, West Coast Conference, Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, Western Collegiate Lacrosse League, Canada West Universities Athletic Association, Pioneer Collegiate Lacrosse League, Big Eight Conference, Ontario University Athletics, New England Small College Athletic Conference, Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference, Middle Atlantic Conferences, Collegiate Water Polo Association, Atlantic University Sport, Upper Midwest Athletic Conference, Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, America East Conference, Mid-South Conference, Little East Conference, United States Collegiate Athletic Association, Pacific Northwest Collegiate Lacrosse League, Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, Great Rivers Lacrosse Conference, Southland Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament, Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges, State University of New York Athletic Conference, Southern States Athletic Conference, Atlantic Sun Men’s Basketball Tournament, Wisconsin Int… More: |
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Conversations With Great Teachers $4.97 In the spirit of Studs Terkel’s Working, Bill Smoot interviews master teachers in fields ranging from K–12 and higher education to the arts, trades and professions, sports, and politics. The result suggests a dinner party where the most fascinating teachers in America discuss their various styles as well as what makes their work meaningful to them. What is it that passes between the best teachers and their students to make learning happen? What are the keys to teaching the joys of literature, shooting a basketball, alligator wrestling, or how to survive one’s first year in the U.S. Congress? Smoot’s insightful questions elicit thought-provoking reflections about teaching as a calling and its aims, frustrations, and satisfactions. |
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Conversations with Great Teachers $16.95 In the spirit of Studs Terkel’s Working, Bill Smoot interviews master teachers in fields ranging from K–12 and higher education to the arts, trades and professions, sports, and politics. The result suggests a dinner party where the most fascinating teachers in America discuss their various styles as well as what makes their work meaningful to them. What is it that passes between the best teachers and their students to make learning happen? What are the keys to teaching the joys of literature, shooting a basketball, alligator wrestling, or how to survive one’s first year in the U.S. Congress? Smoot’s insightful questions elicit thought-provoking reflections about teaching as a calling and its aims, frustrations, and satisfactions. |
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Conversations with Great Teachers $19.95 In the spirit of Studs Terkel’s Working, Bill Smoot interviews master teachers in fields ranging from K–12 and higher education to the arts, trades and professions, sports, and politics. The result suggests a dinner party where the most fascinating teachers in America discuss their various styles as well as what makes their work meaningful to them. What is it that passes between the best teachers and their students to make learning happen? What are the keys to teaching the joys of literature, shooting a basketball, alligator wrestling, or how to survive one’s first year in the U.S. Congress? Smoot’s insightful questions elicit thought-provoking reflections about teaching as a calling and its aims, frustrations, and satisfactions. |
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Court Vision: Unexpected Views on the Lure of Basketball $0.99 Nobel laureats on the fast break?Symphony orchestra conductors on the alley-oop?Astronauts on the free throw?Bestselling New York Times writer Ira Berkow presents a unique look at America’s premier sport—and its fans—thorugh interviews with a remarkable cross section of widly known and extraordinarily accomplished individuals in a variety of fields, who explain what the lure of basketball is for them. Berkow talked with Chris Rock, Woody Allen, Tom Brokaw, Saul Bellow, Johnnie Cochran Jr., Walter Matthau, Nikki Giovanni, Donald Trump, Julia Child, Frank Stella, Erica Jong, Grover Washington Jr., Seiji Ozawa, and Sharon Stone, among others, to uncover fresh, funny, controversial, and often surprising opinions about the teams and players who make the game intriguing. “My height was insufficient for a serious career. But to this day, if I play in a game with kids eight years old and under, I’m a tremendously effective shot blocker.”—Woody Allen “A basketball game is a two-hour version of life, and that’s the beauty of it. You have a start, you have a middle, you have a finish. The nice part is that you don’t have to go eighty years.”—Donald Trump”I always say that the most dangerous play in basketball is the open white man. It’s because there is nothing more surefire… . A white guy open behind the arc is frightening.” —Chris RockThe interviews also offer compelling insight not only into what makes basketball transcendent, but these luminaries view the world of basketball how their own particular expertise and learn from it. |
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Crofton, Maryland (Images of America Series) $21.99 Established in 1964 as a planned community, Crofton’s almost 2,000 acres have been colonized and cultivated since the mid-17th century. Its roots can be traced to America’s first planned community–Williamsburg, Virginia. Williamsburg’s elegance and charm inspired developer W. Hamilton Crawford’s idyllic design for Crofton: a grand boulevard, curving residential streets, arching trees, a country club, and easy access to nearby Washington, D.C., and Baltimore. This collection of photographs from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century reflects the life and times of the maturing village of Crofton. Fields of tobacco and corn, towering woodlands, cherry tree saplings along Crofton Parkway, the dedication of Crofton Park, summer Little League camp–Images of America: Crofton is a compendium of dreams fulfilled. Independence Day parades; fairs; bicycle races; pumpkin-design competitions; softball, soccer, and basketball teams; and summer concerts on the Green are all here. While historians record the facts, artists and cameras capture the small moments as well as the grand events. Those moments, large and small, are what readers will find between these covers. |
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Dallas Chaparrals Draft Picks $8.96 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Sidney Wicks, Ron Boone, Butch Beard, Stan Love, Gene Littles, Walter Szczerbiak, Glen Combs, Collis Jones, Curtis Rowe, Rich Jones. Excerpt: Sidney Wicks (born September 19, 1949) is a retired American basketball player. A native of California, he played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins and played professionally in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1971 to 1981. In the NBA he played for the Portland Trail Blazers, Boston Celtics, and San Diego Clippers, earning NBA Rookie of the Year in 1972 as well as four all-star selections. Sidney Wicks was born in Los Angeles, California, on September 19, 1949. He attended Alexander Hamilton High School in Los Angeles, but because of non-qualifying grades in high school, he had to attend Santa Monica College for a year until he could go to his preferred university, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Wicks later earned Academic All-America honors at UCLA in 1971. He earned a degree in sociology from the school. A 6’8″ power forward/center, Wicks was a phenom at UCLA, playing on three straight NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championships from 1969 to 1971, the Bruins’ star player on the latter two, being named the Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four in 1970, Helms National Co-Player of the Year (1970) USBWA and Sporting News Player of the Year (1971) and two-time consensus All-American in 1970 and 1971. On Feb 1, 1996, his Jersey #35 was retired in a halftime ceremony at UCLA’s home court, Pauley Pavilion. Wicks was an 1985 inductee into the UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame and in 2010, was selected to the College Basketball Hall of Fame. The Portland Trail Blazers selected Wicks with the second pick of the 1971 NBA Draft after paying the Cleveland Cavaliers $250,000 … More: |
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Dick Vitale’s Fabulous 50 Players and Moments in College Basketball: From the Best Seat in the House During My 30 Years at ESPN $0.11 In Dick Vitale’s Fabulous 50 Players and Moments in College Basketball: From the Best Seat in the House During My 30 Years at ESPN, America’s self-confessed number one college basketball junkie will go on the record, ranking his players and moments from 1 to 50. His personal pantheon might surprise you. The legends are here, of course. And they deserve to be. Consensus is that these are the greatest of the great. But some of his rankings may be unexpected. Kansas guard Mario Chalmers’ three-point shot to force overtime against Memphis in the 2008 national championship game. Ralph Sampson of Virginia vs. Patrick Ewing of Georgetown in a 1983 reprise of the great showdown between Lew Alcindor and Elvin Hayes in the ’60s. UCLA guard Tyus Edney’s length-of-the-floor dash to glory against Missouri in the 1995 tournament. Michael Jordan’s game winning shot against Georgetown in 1982 during his freshman year at North Carolina. Kentucky’s 31point comeback against LSU in 1994. Cinderella George Mason upsetting Connecticut to make the Final Four in 2006. Every basketball fan has his or her favorites: the perfect player, the magical moments. But only Dick Vitale will go on the record, ranking them 1 through 50, and he’ll do it as much as a fan as a commentator. This is from his heart, naming the top 50 players and moments in the wonderful world of college hoops. It’s awesome, baby. |
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Dwight Jones $56.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dwight Elmo Jones is a retired American professional basketball player. A 6’10″ forward/center, he was the leading scorer and rebounder on the 1972 Olympic team that lost the controversial gold medal game to the Soviet Union. Jones was ejected from the Gold Medal game after an altercation with a Soviet player. Jones attended E.O. Smith Education Center and Wheatley High School. After playing college basketball at the University of Houston from 1970-73, Jones was selected as the 9th overall pick in 1973 NBA Draft by the Atlanta Hawks. Jones played for ten seasons in the NBA from 1973 to 1983 with four teams: Atlanta, the Houston Rockets, the Chicago Bulls, and the Los Angeles Lakers. The 6 ft 10 in power forward/center averaged 8.1 points in 766 career regular season games. His son, Dwight Jones II, played at Houston Baptist University. A 6-3 guard, Jones II was named the Red River Athletic Conference Player of the Year in 2005-06 and 2006-07 while also being named an NAIA All-America both seasons. |
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Elliot Allagash $11.99 Painfully shy and physically inept, Seymour Herson is the lowest student on the social totem pole at Glendale, a private school in Manhattan. But Seymour’s solitary existence comes to a swift end when he meets the new transfer student, Elliot Allagash, evil heir to America’s largest fortune. Bitter and bored with Glendale’s pedestrian surroundings, Elliot decides to take up a challenging and expensive hobby: transforming Seymour into the most popular boy in the school. With Elliot as his diabolical strategist, investor, and unlikely best friend, Seymour scores a spot on the basketball team, becomes class president, and ruthlessly destroys his enemies. Yet despite the glow of newfound popularity, Seymour feels increasingly uneasy with Elliot’s wily designs. For an Allagash victory is dishonorable at its best, and positively ruinous at its worst. |
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Elliot Allagash $15 Painfully shy and physically inept, Seymour Herson is the lowest student on the social totem pole at Glendale, a private school in Manhattan. But Seymour’s solitary existence comes to a swift end when he meets the new transfer student, Elliot Allagash, evil heir to America’s largest fortune. Bitter and bored with Glendale’s pedestrian surroundings, Elliot decides to take up a challenging and expensive hobby: transforming Seymour into the most popular boy in the school. With Elliot as his diabolical strategist, investor, and unlikely best friend, Seymour scores a spot on the basketball team, becomes class president, and ruthlessly destroys his enemies. Yet despite the glow of newfound popularity, Seymour feels increasingly uneasy with Elliot’s wily designs. For an Allagash victory is dishonorable at its best, and positively ruinous at its worst. |
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Elliot Allagash $24.95 Painfully shy and physically inept, Seymour Herson is the lowest student on the social totem pole at Glendale, a private school in Manhattan. But Seymour’s solitary existence comes to a swift end when he meets the new transfer student, Elliot Allagash, evil heir to America’s largest fortune. Bitter and bored with Glendale’s pedestrian surroundings, Elliot decides to take up a challenging and expensive hobby: transforming Seymour into the most popular boy in the school. With Elliot as his diabolical strategist, investor, and unlikely best friend, Seymour scores a spot on the basketball team, becomes class president, and ruthlessly destroys his enemies. Yet despite the glow of newfound popularity, Seymour feels increasingly uneasy with Elliot’s wily designs. For an Allagash victory is dishonorable at its best, and positively ruinous at its worst. |
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Elliot Allagash: A Novel $51.04 Simon Rich dazzled readers with his absurdist sense of humor in his hilarious collections Ant Farm and Free-Range Chickens. Now comes Rich’s rollicking debut novel, which explores the strangest, most twisted, and comically fraught terrain of them all: high school.Seymour Herson is the least popular student at Glendale, a private school in Manhattan. He’s painfully shy, physically inept, and his new nick-name, “chunk style,” is in danger of entering common usage. But Seymour’s solitary existence comes to a swift end when he meets the new transfer student: Elliot Allagash, evil heir of America’s largest fortune.Elliot’s rampant delinquency has already gotten him expelled from dozens of prep schools around the country. But despite his best efforts, he can’t get himself thrown out of Glendale; his father has simply donated too much money. Bitter and bored, Elliot decides to amuse himself by taking up a challenging and expensive new hobby: transforming Seymour into the most popular student in the school.An unlikely friendship develops between the two loners as Elliot introduces Seymour to new concepts, like power, sabotage, and vengeance. With Elliot as his diabolical strategist and investor, Seymour scores a spot on the basketball team, becomes class president, and ruthlessly destroys his enemies. Yet despite the glow of newfound popularity, Seymour feels increasingly uneasy with Elliot’s wily designs. For an Allagash victory is dishonorable at its best, and ruinous at its worst.Cunningly playful and wickedly funny, Elliot Allagash is a tale about all of the incredible things that money can buy, and the one or two things that it can’t. |
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Ernie Vandeweghe $63.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ernest Maurice “Ernie” Vandeweghe Jr. (born September 12, 1928 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) was a professional basketball player who played football, basketball and baseball for Oceanside High School on Long Island where he was also a member of the Omega Gamma Delta Fraternity, before playing for the New York Knicks of the NBA. Vandeweghe is the father of former NBA All-Star (and current New Jersey Nets coach) Kiki Vandeweghe and grandfather of tennis professional Coco Vandeweghe. In addition to his NBA playing career, he is also a physician who served in the United States Air Force. He is the widower of 1952 Miss America pageant winner Colleen Kay Hutchins. |
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Fayetteville, Arkansas $14.13 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: People From Fayetteville, Arkansas, Edward Durell Stone, Richard Corben, Frank Broyles, Kevin Carson, Mike Conley, Jr., E. Lynn Harris, Sarah Caldwell, Willis Ricketts, John Rollin Ridge, Matt Jones, Wallace Spearmon, Temple Shalom of Northwest Arkansas, Ronnie Brewer, Billy Ray Smith, Donald Harington, Ellen Gilchrist, Cliff Harris, George Johnson, Ron Brewer, Jim Bryson, Walton Arts Center, Fleda Brown, Arkansas Fantastics, Mike Brisiel, Arkansas Stars, Ozark Regional Transit, Jason Moore, Strengthen the Arm of Liberty Monument (Fayetteville, Arkansas), Mark Swaney, Fayetteville Public Library, Charley Jones, Dickson Street, Quinn Grovey, Wattle Hollow. Excerpt: Arkansas Fantastics The Arkansas Fantastics was a expansion team in the American Basketball Association that was scheduled to begin play in 2007 in Fayetteville, Arkansas .The 2007-2008 ABA season saw nearly twenty teams fold within its first five weeks. This included the Fantastics who never started the season. Several of the remaining teams left the ABA to join other existing leagues. Only 35 % of the games were actually played in the 2007/08 season. Ownership The team was co-owned by former America’s Next Top Model contestant Furonda Brasfield and Arkansas Razorbacks all-time assist and steals leader Kareem Reid .References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Arkansas Stars The Arkansas Stars were a professional Indoor football team based out of Fayetteville, Arkansas , United States . They were planning to found the Ultimate Indoor Football League in 2007. They play their home games at Randal Tyson Track Center on the University of Arkansas campus. The team was a 2006 expansion member of the National Indoor Football League .Notable players include receiver Darrian Chestnut and |
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Films Distributed By Disney (Study Guide) $29.71 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Castle in the Sky, Porco Rosso, Taare Zameen Par, Kiki’s Delivery Service, List of Disney Feature Films, Ponyo, the Brave Little Toaster, List of Disney Made for Tv Movies, Valiant, Howl’s Moving Castle, Around the World in 80 Days, Pom Poko, the Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, the Cat Returns, My Neighbors the Yamadas, Air Buddies, Air Bud, the Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars, the Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue, the Boys: the Sherman Brothers’ Story, Frank and Ollie, Air Bud: Golden Receiver, Air Bud: World Pup, Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch, Air Bud: Spikes Back, America’s Heart and Soul, Sacred Planet. Excerpt: Air Bud is a 1997 American family /Comedy film that sparked the franchise centered on the real-life dog, Buddy , a Golden Retriever . The film’s title may be wordplay with “Air Jordan”, a nickname of basketball superstar Michael Jordan . Michael Jeter , despite playing the main antagonist, received top billing.The original film was financially successful, despite being defeated by Air Force One for the #1 spot on the film’s opening weekend, grossing US $4 million in its opening weekend and totaling US $24 million for its final run, against an estimated $3 million budget. On Cartoon Craze’s Top 50 Movies of All-Time, Air Bud came in at number two behind Toy Story .Plot The plot revolves around a 12-year-old boy, Josh Framm. After the death of his father, Josh moves with his family to Washington State and is too shy to try out for his middle school ‘s basketball team and too shy to make any friends. He meets Buddy, a Golden Retriever who had escaped from his cruel owner, an alcoholic clown named Norman Snively, who had locked Buddy in a kennel after a bad birthday |
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Finding Forrester $17.79 The only tie-in to the Columbia Pictures film starring Sean Connery, directed by Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting) – an inspiring story about the unlikely friendship between a famous, reclusive novelist and an amazingly gifted teen who secretly yearns to be a writer. Set in Manhattan and the South Bronx, William Forrester (Connery), a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who has not been heard from for four decades, accidentally discovers that Jamal, a brash 16-year-old African-American who plays basketball on the court below his window, keeps a secret journal that shows a real gift for writing. Forrester takes Jamal on as a prot?, and the friendship challenges and changes the two of them forever. Written by an accomplished novelist, based on an award-winning screenplay, this story yearns to be a novel as well as a movie. The inspiration came from an interview conducted by the screenwriter, former radio news director Mike Rich: ''I was doing an interview with someone about America's greatest authors, and I noticed that so many of them, Salinger or Pynchon, for example, seemed to be eccentric, reclusive types. I thought a story that showed how someone helped a great writer break through that barrier of isolation and re-enter the world would make a terrific story, especially if that person were a teenager who is also in some way gifted.'' Rich's screenplay became one of five finalists out of 4,500 entries to win the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Nicholl writing award for new screenwriters. Other actors in Finding Forrester include F. Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin, Busta Rhymes, Zane Copeland, James ''Fly'' Williams III, Michael Nouri, and, in his first acting role, Rob Brown, a 15-year-old student at Poly Prep High School in Brooklyn, New York. |
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Finding Forrester $9.99 The only tie-in to the Columbia Pictures film starring Sean Connery, directed by Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting)—an inspiring story about the unlikely friendship between a famous, reclusive novelist and an amazingly gifted teen who secretly yearns to be a writer. Set in Manhattan and the South Bronx, William Forrester (Connery), a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who has not been heard from for four decades, accidentally discovers that Jamal, a brash 16-year-old African-American who plays basketball on the court below his window, keeps a secret journal that shows a real gift for writing. Forrester takes Jamal on as a protégé, and the friendship challenges and changes the two of them forever. Written by an accomplished novelist, based on an award-winning screenplay, this story yearns to be a novel as well as a movie. The inspiration came from an interview conducted by the screenwriter, former radio news director Mike Rich: “I was doing an interview with someone about America’s greatest authors, and I noticed that so many of them, Salinger or Pynchon, for example, seemed to be eccentric, reclusive types. I thought a story that showed how someone helped a great writer break through that barrier of isolation and re-enter the world would make a terrific story, especially if that person were a teenager who is also in some way gifted.” Rich’s screenplay became one of five finalists out of 4,500 entries to win the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Nicholl writing award for new screenwriters. Other actors in Finding Forrester include F. Murray Abraham, Anna Paquin, Busta Phymes, Zane Copeland, James “Fly” Williams III, Michael Nouri, and, in hisfirst acting role, Rob Brown, a 15-year-old student at Poly Prep High School in Brooklyn, New York. Author Biography: James W. Ellison is the author of seven novels published by Doubleday, Little Brown, and Dodd Mead, including the award-winning I’m Owen Harrison |
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Fishers of Men: The Gospel of an Ayahuasca Vision Quest $18.99 In the tradition of memoirs like Daniel Pinchbeck’s 2012 and Jim Carroll’s The Basketball Diaries, Adam Elenbaas’s Fishers of Men chronicles his journey from intense self-destruction and crippling depression to self-acceptance, inner awareness, and spiritual understanding, through participation in mindexpanding-and healing ayahuasca ceremonies in South America and beyond.From his troubled and rebellious youth as a Methodist minister’s son in Minnesota, to his sex and substance abuse-fueled downward spiral in Chicago and New York, culminating in a depressive breakdown, Elenbaas is plagued by a feeling of emptiness and a desperate search for meaning for most of his young life. After hitting rock bottom at his grandfather’s house in rural Michigan, a chance experience with psychedelic mushrooms convinces him that he must change his ways to achieve the sense of peace that he has always desired. Several subsequent psychedelic experiences inspire him to embark on a quest to South America and take part in a shamanic ceremony, where he consumes ayahuasca, a jungle vine revered for its spiritual properties.Over the course of nearly forty ayahuasca ceremonies during four years, Elenbaas discovers the truth about his own life and past, and begins to mend himself from the inside out. Fishers of Men is the gripping, heartbreaking, and yet ultimately uplifting story of the power to transcend one’s past. |
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Fishers of Men: The Gospel of an Ayahuasca Vision Quest $2.09 In the tradition of memoirs like Daniel Pinchbeck’s 2012 and Jim Carroll’s The Basketball Diaries, Adam Elenbaas’s Fishers of Men chronicles his journey from intense self-destruction and crippling depression to self-acceptance, inner awareness, and spiritual understanding, through participation in mindexpanding-and healing ayahuasca ceremonies in South America and beyond.From his troubled and rebellious youth as a Methodist minister’s son in Minnesota, to his sex and substance abuse-fueled downward spiral in Chicago and New York, culminating in a depressive breakdown, Elenbaas is plagued by a feeling of emptiness and a desperate search for meaning for most of his young life. After hitting rock bottom at his grandfather’s house in rural Michigan, a chance experience with psychedelic mushrooms convinces him that he must change his ways to achieve the sense of peace that he has always desired. Several subsequent psychedelic experiences inspire him to embark on a quest to South America and take part in a shamanic ceremony, where he consumes ayahuasca, a jungle vine revered for its spiritual properties.Over the course of nearly forty ayahuasca ceremonies during four years, Elenbaas discovers the truth about his own life and past, and begins to mend himself from the inside out. Fishers of Men is the gripping, heartbreaking, and yet ultimately uplifting story of the power to transcend one’s past. |
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From Julius to Jason: The Fall and Rise of the New Jersey Nets $15.95 From the time that the Nets sold Julius Erving to the Philadelphia 76ers upon entering the NBA in 1976, until the point when they acquired Jason Kidd from the Phoenix Suns in a trade in 2001, the Nets were plagued by a series of events that were by turns tragic, ill-timed, unfortunate or just plain self-destructive. At least, until 2002, when so many of the ghosts of a quarter-century of misfortune (and occasional mismanagement) were virtually exorcized. These are the Nets. Their history is like that of no other sports organization in America. So lace up your old nylon Chuck Taylor Converse sneakers, inflate that old red, white and blue basketball you’ve got sitting in the garage and come join us for a long, strange trip back through Nets lore. |
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From the Heart: Eight Rules to Live By $0.01 While most people say the key to success is a willingness to break the rules, to think outside the box, to ignore boundaries, Robin Roberts whose own spectacular success as a college basketball star, ESPN commentator, and co-anchor on Good Morning America is undisputed — is here to tell listeners something different. In her considerable experience, there are seven rules whose importance cannot be ignored. In the tradition of bestsellers like Maria Shriver’s And One More Thing Before You Go, Anna Quindlen’s A Short Guide to a Happy Life, and Marlo Thomas’ The Right Words at the Right Time, FROM THE HEART is the perfect gift for new grads, and an inspiring read for anyone searching for the path to success. |
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From the Heart: Eight Rules to Live By $6.98 While most people say the key to success is a willingness to break the rules, to think outside the box, to ignore boundaries, Robin Roberts whose own spectacular success as a college basketball star, ESPN commentator, and co-anchor on Good Morning America is undisputed — is here to tell listeners something different. In her considerable experience, there are seven rules whose importance cannot be ignored. In the tradition of bestsellers like Maria Shriver’s And One More Thing Before You Go, Anna Quindlen’s A Short Guide to a Happy Life, and Marlo Thomas’ The Right Words at the Right Time, FROM THE HEART is the perfect gift for new grads, and an inspiring read for anyone searching for the path to success. |
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From the Heart: Seven Rules to Live By $19.95 The first-ever book from popular and respected Good Morning America co-anchor Robin Roberts, filled with her own hard-won insights into what makes successWhile most people will say that the key to success is a willingness to break the rules, to think outside the box, to ignore boundaries, Robin Roberts — whose own spectacular success as a college basketball star, ESPN commentator, and co-anchor on Good Morning America is undisputed — is here to tell readers differently. In her considerable experience, there are seven rules whose importance cannot be ignored, and which must never be broken if true, meaningful success is the goal. In the tradition of bestsellers like Maria Shriver’s And One More Thing Before You Go, Anna Quindlen’s A Short Guide to a Happy Life, and Marlo Thomas The Right Words at the Right Time, From the Heart is the perfect gift for new grads, and an inspiring read for anyone searching for the path to success. |
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From the Heart: Seven Rules to Live By $19.98 The first-ever book from popular and respected Good Morning America co-anchor Robin Roberts, filled with her own hard-won insights into what makes successWhile most people will say that the key to success is a willingness to break the rules, to think outside the box, to ignore boundaries, Robin Roberts — whose own spectacular success as a college basketball star, ESPN commentator, and co-anchor on Good Morning America is undisputed — is here to tell readers differently. In her considerable experience, there are seven rules whose importance cannot be ignored, and which must never be broken if true, meaningful success is the goal. In the tradition of bestsellers like Maria Shriver’s And One More Thing Before You Go, Anna Quindlen’s A Short Guide to a Happy Life, and Marlo Thomas The Right Words at the Right Time, From the Heart is the perfect gift for new grads, and an inspiring read for anyone searching for the path to success. |
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From the Heart: Seven Rules to Live By $11.95 The first-ever book from popular and respected Good Morning America co-anchor Robin Roberts, filled with her own hard-won insights into what makes successWhile most people will say that the key to success is a willingness to break the rules, to think outside the box, to ignore boundaries, Robin Roberts — whose own spectacular success as a college basketball star, ESPN commentator, and co-anchor on Good Morning America is undisputed — is here to tell readers differently. In her considerable experience, there are seven rules whose importance cannot be ignored, and which must never be broken if true, meaningful success is the goal. In the tradition of bestsellers like Maria Shriver’s And One More Thing Before You Go, Anna Quindlen’s A Short Guide to a Happy Life, and Marlo Thomas The Right Words at the Right Time, From the Heart is the perfect gift for new grads, and an inspiring read for anyone searching for the path to success. |
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From the Heart: Seven Rules to Live By $0.99 The first-ever book from popular and respected Good Morning America co-anchor Robin Roberts, filled with her own hard-won insights into what makes successWhile most people will say that the key to success is a willingness to break the rules, to think outside the box, to ignore boundaries, Robin Roberts — whose own spectacular success as a college basketball star, ESPN commentator, and co-anchor on Good Morning America is undisputed — is here to tell readers differently. In her considerable experience, there are seven rules whose importance cannot be ignored, and which must never be broken if true, meaningful success is the goal. In the tradition of bestsellers like Maria Shriver’s And One More Thing Before You Go, Anna Quindlen’s A Short Guide to a Happy Life, and Marlo Thomas The Right Words at the Right Time, From the Heart is the perfect gift for new grads, and an inspiring read for anyone searching for the path to success. |
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Garfield Big Fat Hairy Joke Book $5.99 America’s bestselling fatcat brings his mass appeal to mass market. Garfield busts out in an original collection of zany jokes in the tradition of the 1,000 Jokes series. Includes such sidesplitters as “Why is Garfield like a basketball?” They’re both round, orange, and frequently stuffed! Original. |
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Gene Guarilia $53.23 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Eugene Michael Guarilia is a retired American basketball player. He attended Holy Rosary High School. Guarilia played freshman basketball for Potomac State College, a junior college in Keyser, West Virginia. He established a State Conference freshman record by scoring 595 points in 1953. A 6’5″ forward Guarilia played for the George Washington University varsity basketball team beginning in the 1956-1957 season. He took the place of All-America Joe Holup who went on to play for the Syracuse Nationals. In February 1957 he was averaging 17.1 points per game and was #6 in the NCAA in rebounding. In the twenty games he had played, Guarilia had snatched 353 rebounds. He was selected to the all Southern Conference basketball team in February 1958. Guarilia was selected by the Boston Celtics in the second round of the 1959 NBA Draft. Guarilia appeared in 129 games for the Celtics over four seasons, averaging 3.2 points and 2.3 rebounds per game. He earned four NBA championship rings in his brief career. |
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Ghetto Poetry $16.95 I was born July 25, 1979, in Louisville, Kentucky. I was raised by my mother, who worked extremely hard to support me and my other siblings. When I was ten years old we moved to Millington, Tennessee, a town right outside of Memphis. After graduating from high school I attended Jackson State Community College on a basketball scholarship before transferring to Fisk University to further my education. Throughout my years I have always had a passion for poetry. I began writing at eight and ever since then I never put the pen down. I compare my style to hip hop, which is a form of poetry over a beat. I am a big fan and I love any form of expression, whether it’s writing, rapping, singing, or painting. I titled my works Ghetto Poetry because it’s from a perspective of a person who has lived on both sides of the fence. I can relate to the people who are still in the struggle and at the same time get the message to corporate America so that they can feel what’s going on. I get inspiration from all sorts of things, mainly friends and family, so I hope my works are an inspiration to others so that they may grow close to their loved ones. |
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Girl’s Basketball $16.95 Mike Holloway,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Publish America |
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Glory Road: My Story of the 1966 NCAA Basketball Championship and how One Team Triumphed against the Odds and Changed America Forever $14.99 Timed to the release of Jerry Bruckheimer’s movie, the moving autobiography of Hall of Fame basketball coach Don Haskins and his storied team of players, the Texas Western MinersIn 1966, college basketball was almost completely segregated. In the championship game for the NCAA title that year, Don Haskins, coach of the then little-known Texas Western College, did something that had never been done before in the history of college basketball. He started five black players and in the now legendary game, unseated the nationally top-ranked University of Kentucky. Broadcast on television throughout the country, the Miners victory became the impetus for the desegregation of all college teams in the South during the next few years.Now, for the first time, Hall of Fame coach Don Haskins tell his story. Beginning as a small-town high school basketball coach, Haskins was known for his tough coaching methods and larger-than-life personality. As a child growing up during the Dust Bowl in Oklahoma, he developed a strong set of values and discipline that he would instill in his players throughout his coaching career. With recollections from his former players, including those of the 1966 team, along with Haskins’s own Seven Principles for Success, Glory Road is the inspiring story of a living legend and one of the most respected coaches of all time.With a foreword by basketball legend Bobby Knight, and coinciding with the release of the film Glory Road, the story of Don Haskins and his championship team is sure to become a classic for sports fans and historians. |
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Gold Standard: Building a World-Class Team $9.99 Until 1988, America’s basketball combine rolled over the world in the Summer Olympics. In the ten tournaments before the Seoul games in which the USA competed, they brought home the gold nine times, losing only a single time in a final, and that by a scant one point. But while our Olympians were stacking up trophies, the rest of the world was catching up. At the 2004 Athens Games, the so-called “Dream Team” was vanquished by Lithuania, Puerto Rico, and Spain. When Duke Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski received the call to coach the 2008 team, he knew that it was no ceremonial honor; he was being asked to motivate a multimillionaire crew of NBA superstars into a winning unit. This stirring firsthand book recounts that sometimes uphill battle and shares the lessons that Coach K and his high-flying players learned in the process. |
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Great Motivation Secrets of Great Leaders $21.95 Real stories. Real leaders. Real inspiration.Whether it’s Magic Johnson excelling in business as well as basketball, Ernest Shackleton leading men out of Antarctica, or Mary Kay Ash building a people-centric cosmetics empire, these legendary figures have redefined the meaning of a great leader. With inspiring stories of leaders in a wide variety of fields that outline their guiding principles, Great Motivation Secrets of Great Leaders provides life lessons that will motivate you to your greatest potential.”Great Motivation Secrets gets to the heart of how leaders create conditions for motivation to occur by energizing their minds, encouraging their hearts, and exhorting their spirits.”—John Maxwell, America’s pre-eminent author on leadership and founder of Maximum Impact”When John Baldoni writes on leadership, I pay close attention. Great Motivation Secrets is his best book yet.”—Pat Williams, Senior Vice President, Orlando Magic”John Baldoni has written a very readable and useful book on motivation. He mixes sound advice on motivational techniques with entertaining and relevant examples from leaders past and present.”—Personal comments of Dr. A. Peter Green, Vice President, Pfizer Global Research & Development”Baldoni reveals insights you can put into practice to achieve the right results, the right way, right now!”—James G. O’Connor, Group Vice President, North America Marketing Sales and Service, Ford Motor Company”Great Motivation Secrets of Great Leaders reveals what we all must do if we are to be great at inspiring others to a cause.”—Michael Useem, professor and director of the Wharton School’s Leadership Center and author of Leading Up and The Leadership Moment.”John Baldoni provides us with insight into the successful motivational techniques and abilities of some of our great leaders. Great Motivation Secrets of Great Leaders will be required reading for |
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Growing UP In Indiana $17.5 It has been said, “There are two seasons in Indiana. They are basketball season and…gettin’ ready for basketball season.”Growing Up in Indiana: The Culture and Hoosier Hysteria Revisited, is about basketball in Indiana in the middle of the 20th century. It is a look back at what the culture was like at that time. The author writes about the trials and tribulations he encountered as a young boy trying to become an accomplished player at Marion (IN) High School. Marion has won seven state basketball championships. Only Muncie Central High School in Muncie, Indiana has won more with eight. Muncie Central helped inspire the movie Hoosiers when it lost to tiny Milan in the 1954 Indiana state final game. The author was a spectator at that fabled game.Growing Up in Indiana is a compelling, heartwarming story about a player trying to earn a college basketball scholarship. Readers will discover how developments in high school, college and professional basketball helped Indiana to become “the basketball state.”Discrimination against African-Americans was at its zenith in the volatile era in which the author was growing up Indiana. He presents a vivid description of the bigotry, hatred and prejudice that affected his family, friends, teammates and famous players. The book describes how Hoosier Hysteria evolved and also explains to those who did not witness it, the racial strife America endured in the 20th century. |
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Having It All?: Black Women and Success $0.01 A behind-the-scenes look into the lives of successful middle- and upper-middle class African American women, the groundbreaking HAVING IT ALL? is sure to spark discussions from cocktail parties to boardrooms.In a single generation, black women have made extraordinary strides academically, professionally, and financially. They’ve entered the workplace at a far greater rate than white women; increased their enrollment in law schools and graduate programs by 120 percent; and many are now running top companies, or in some cases, the country. Isn’t that enough? Not necessarily. With sharp insight, award-winning journalist Veronica Chambers explores the challenges and stereotypes she and other African American women continue to endure, and answers the question most often posed to her: What does success mean for black women?Twenty-first century black women draw their inspiration from a wide range of sources: Claire Huxtable to Audrey Hepburn, snowboarding to basketball, Gloria Steinem to bell hooks. They choose what they like. Yet they are misunderstood by mainstream America and lack an accurate portrayal in the media of their lives. HAVING IT ALL? interweaves the thoughts and reflections of more than fifty women who occupy this territory. The voices range from Thelma Golden, chief curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, to a Silicon Valley executive, to medical and legal professionals, and stay-at-home “mocha moms.”Successful black women today want it all: marriage, motherhood, engaging work, and prosperity. The difference is that they come to the table with the strength, courage and wisdom of black women ancestors who-did-it-all, even when they didn’t-have-it-all. What has gone so undocumented by the media is that modern black women are coming up with creative, satisfying answers to the juggling act that all women face.Veronica Chambers chronicles this topic for the first time in her absorbing, riveting and |
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Having It All?: Black Women and Success $11.99 A behind-the-scenes look into the lives of successful middle- and upper-middle class African American women, the groundbreaking HAVING IT ALL? is sure to spark discussions from cocktail parties to boardrooms.In a single generation, black women have made extraordinary strides academically, professionally, and financially. They’ve entered the workplace at a far greater rate than white women; increased their enrollment in law schools and graduate programs by 120 percent; and many are now running top companies, or in some cases, the country. Isn’t that enough? Not necessarily. With sharp insight, award-winning journalist Veronica Chambers explores the challenges and stereotypes she and other African American women continue to endure, and answers the question most often posed to her: What does success mean for black women?Twenty-first century black women draw their inspiration from a wide range of sources: Claire Huxtable to Audrey Hepburn, snowboarding to basketball, Gloria Steinem to bell hooks. They choose what they like. Yet they are misunderstood by mainstream America and lack an accurate portrayal in the media of their lives. HAVING IT ALL? interweaves the thoughts and reflections of more than fifty women who occupy this territory. The voices range from Thelma Golden, chief curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, to a Silicon Valley executive, to medical and legal professionals, and stay-at-home “mocha moms.”Successful black women today want it all: marriage, motherhood, engaging work, and prosperity. The difference is that they come to the table with the strength, courage and wisdom of black women ancestors who-did-it-all, even when they didn’t-have-it-all. What has gone so undocumented by the media is that modern black women are coming up with creative, satisfying answers to the juggling act that all women face.Veronica Chambers chronicles this topic for the first time in her absorbing, riveting and |
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Heads of State: Pennsylvania’s Greatest High School Basketball Players of the Modern Era $20.1 The history of basketball spans more than a century, from its humble origin as a simple diversion during the harsh winters in America to today’s perennial, rim-rattling show of international renown. Throughout the last 60 years, Pennsylvania has been at the forefront of the sport’s evolution, supplying the world with a steady stream of stars, from Wilt Chamberlain to Kobe Bryant, who have proven to be some of the best to ever play the game.In Heads of State: Pennsylvania’s Greatest High School Basketball Players of the Modern Era, sportswriter Mark Hostutler sizes up the commonwealth to rank its 500 most-accomplished scholastic players from 1950-2010. With input from Sonny Vaccaro, Howard Garfinkel, and other hoops cognoscenti, the author canvassed the Keystone State, conducting hundreds of hours of research and interviews to assemble a list that is sure to stir passionate debate within an already buzzing community of roundball fans.Hostutler’s unique compilation highlights the exploits of Billy Owens, Tom McMillen, Gene Banks, Tyreke Evans, Donyell Marshall, Jameer Nelson, Geoff Petrie, and several others, as they reminisce about their achievements as teenagers on the hardwood. Wonderfully crafted and jam-packed with information, the book is perfect for hard-core fans, stat junkies, or anyone in search of a good read. |
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Heads of State: Pennsylvania’s Greatest High School Basketball Players of the Modern Era $9.99 The history of basketball spans more than a century, from its humble origin as a simple diversion during the harsh winters in America to today’s perennial, rim-rattling show of international renown. Throughout the last 60 years, Pennsylvania has been at the forefront of the sport’s evolution, supplying the world with a steady stream of stars, from Wilt Chamberlain to Kobe Bryant, who have proven to be some of the best to ever play the game.In Heads of State: Pennsylvania’s Greatest High School Basketball Players of the Modern Era, sportswriter Mark Hostutler sizes up the commonwealth to rank its 500 most-accomplished scholastic players from 1950-2010. With input from Sonny Vaccaro, Howard Garfinkel, and other hoops cognoscenti, the author canvassed the Keystone State, conducting hundreds of hours of research and interviews to assemble a list that is sure to stir passionate debate within an already buzzing community of roundball fans.Hostutler’s unique compilation highlights the exploits of Billy Owens, Tom McMillen, Gene Banks, Tyreke Evans, Donyell Marshall, Jameer Nelson, Geoff Petrie, and several others, as they reminisce about their achievements as teenagers on the hardwood. Wonderfully crafted and jam-packed with information, the book is perfect for hard-core fans, stat junkies, or anyone in search of a good read. |
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Health In New Jersey $47.42 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 403. Not illustrated. Chapters: Sports in New Jersey, Newark Bears, Atlantic City Surf, Somerset Patriots, Camden Riversharks, Rutgers Scarlet Knights, Summerslam, Jersey All Pro Wrestling, Wrestlemania V, Hard Justice, Wrestlemania Iv, 1999 Ncaa Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament, 1991 Ncaa Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament, Trenton Devils, Mountain Creek, Sussex Skyhawks, New Jersey Jackals, New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, Trenton Thunder, Newark Eurekas, Lakewood Blueclaws, Greater Middlesex Conference, Tri-County Conference, New Jersey Generals, Elysian Fields, Hoboken, New Jersey, North Bergen Interscholastic Athletic League, Meadowlands Cup, Northern New Jersey Interscholastic League, New Jersey Cardinals, New Jersey Revolution, Milk Can Game, Wta New Jersey, Olympic Conference, New Jersey Pride, Far Hills Races, Bergen Cliff Hawks, New York/new Jersey Hitmen, Bergen-Passaic Scholastic League, Force One Pro Wrestling, Iron Hills Conference, Sussex County Interscholastic League, New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, Northern Hills Conference, New York/new Jersey Knights, Sports Hall of Fame of New Jersey, 1984 Iaaf World Cross Country Championships, Ufc 53, Tour of Somerville, Roh Undeniable, Meadowlands Pace, Livingston Open, Plainfield Curling Club, Trenton Lightning, Ufc 30, Ufc 28, Ufc 50, Young America Stakes, New Jersey Titans, Gardenia Stakes, Monmouth Stakes, Monmouth Beach Stakes, Jersey Justice, Bay Shore Brawlers, Colonial Football Alliance, Tournament of Champions, Jersey Pilots, Millville Football & Athletic Club, New Jersey Kings, New Jersey Storm, Hambletonian, Newark Adriatics, Colonial Valley Conference, Elizabeth Resolutes, Garden State Bowl, American Stock Car Racing Association, New Jersey Xtreme, New Jersey Nightmare, Atlantic City Boardwalk Bullies, New Jersey |
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High School Football in Indiana: Indiana Big School Football Champions, Indiana High School Football Champions – Smaller Schools $8.78 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Indiana Big School Football Champions, Indiana High School Football Champions – Smaller Schools, Mr. Football Award. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Better known for its high school basketball, Indiana high school football has also been a staple of Hoosier weekends for more than 100 years. In 1930, more than 30,000 people jammed Notre Dame Stadium to watch Mishawaka beat undefeated South Bend Central, 6-0. At the time, it was the one of the largest crowds ever to witness a high school football game in America. Indiana High School football is still immensely popular, with tens of thousands now packing Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis to watch five state championship games over two days in November. The following is a history of Indiana’s big school state football championship. Since the late 1800s, Indiana high school football teams had been playing each other, often playing fewer than five games per year and many times skipping entire seasons. Pre-1920 “games” often featured high school teams playing semi-pro club teams, college teams and even intramural scrimmages. Various teams made state championship claims, but most were unfounded until organized leagues and verified games became commonplace beginning with the 1920 season. By that year, as many as 26 high schools in Northern Indiana stretching from Fort Wayne to East Chicago were annually compiling standings and functioning as the states first organized football conference. These northern football teams frequently defeated powerhouse teams from other states and were rarely defeated by Indiana teams from outside the league. (From 1921-26, Gary Emerson never lost a game to an in-state team.) It was probably quite safe for the winner of this early super conference to claim the Mythical State Fo… More: |
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High School Sports In Indiana $19.99 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Hoosier Hysteria, Indiana High School Athletic Association, 1954 Milan High School Basketball Team, Indiana Alley Cats, Indiana High School Boys Basketball Champions. Excerpt: The 1954 Milan High School Indians were the Indiana state high school basketball champions in 1954. With an enrollment of only 161, the Indians were the smallest school ever to win a single-class state basketball title in Indiana. The team and town are the inspiration for the 1986 film Hoosiers . The team finished their regular season 192 and sported a 282 overall record.Background Unlike most states, Indiana held a single-class tournament where all schools competed for the same championship in one of America’s largest and most popular high school tournaments until the controversial separation into enrollment classes in 1997. Indiana still possessed a large rural population well into the 1950s and rural school consolidation was still in its infancy. As a result, most Indiana high schools of the era had what today are considered extremely small enrollments. Many of these small schools had realistic expectations of advancing several rounds into the tournament in that era, but they would almost inevitably fall in the regionals to urban schools from places such as South Bend , Evansville , Gary , Terre Haute , Muncie , and Indianapolis .1954 Milan High School Basketball TeamCoach Marvin Wood was hired two years previously, at the age of 24, after a collegiate playing career at Butler University and a coaching stint in French Lick . His hiring was controversial, coming on the heels of Superintendent Willard Green’s firing of coach Snort Grinstead, who ordered new uniforms without authorization. Wood was in most ways diametrically opposite to Grinstead and ran the program in much the same way. He closed |
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Hoops Nation: A Guide to America’s Best Pick-Up Basketball $6.99 Chris Ballard,NOOK Book (eBook), English-language edition,Pub by Holt, Henry & Company, Inc. |
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Hoops Nation: A Guide to America’s Best Pick-up Basketball $0.99 Chris Ballard, Bob Porter (Illustrator), Foreword by Chuck Wielgus, Foreword by Alexander Wolff, Clark Kellogg (Introduction),Paperback, Edition: 1, English-language edition,Pub by Holt, Henry & Company, Inc. |
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Hoops Nation: A Guide to America’s Best Pickup Basketball $19.95 Looking for a game? Here’s your guided tour of the country’s best pickup basketball courts, from the blacktops of Brooklyn to the asphalt of Anchorage to the gyms of Jackson, Mississippi. It’s all inside: where the pros play, the most scenic runs in the land, and a ranking of the top five courts. Chris Ballard and three other former college players piled into a used Chevy van and traveled thirty-one thousand miles in seven months, playing at over a thousand courts in 166 cities in forty-eight states. This is the story of their roundball road trip and a guide to the places, people, and communities they encountered. More than a travel guide, Hoops Nation is “a celebration of the game of basketball as it is played in America.” It includes guides to streetball fashion, the lingo of the courts, the etiquette of the pickup world, the tricks of old-guy basketball, and tips for the dunking impaired. Also included are profiles of playground legends and dispatches from the legions of basketball lifers who populate the country’s courts. This book can tell you where they’re running today, all over America. Who’s got next? |
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Hopkins County, Kentucky (Images of America Series) $21.99 Hopkins County was created in 1806 and named for Gen. Samuel Hopkins, a Revolutionary War veteran and surveyor. The Evansville, Henderson, and Nashville Railroad was completed through the county in 1871, opening transportation for the coalfield. The county became the first to produce more than one million tons of coal per year and has remained one of the top producers ever since. The employment base today is farming, mining, and manufacturing. Hopkins County has also been home to many well-known celebrities, including two Kentucky governors; Frank Ramsey of the Boston Celtics; Jim Roberts, vocalist on the Lawrence Welk Show; former Miss Kentucky Mitzi Jones; basketball player and coach Travis Ford; actress Addie Dukes McPhail; artist Charles Sebree; the Happy Goodman Family; the Rambos; and Oliver Loving, creator of the Texas Cattle Drive. |
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House Of Moses All-Stars $31.95 The seven members of an all-Jewish basketball team, barnstorming in Depression-era America, confront the prejudices of the nation, as well as their own souls, in a wry and ardent road novel. “A tale of much more than sport. Rosen gives us a sometimes agonizing, often hilarious journey through American history, and a poignant account of what keeps a man running”.–CHICAGO TRIBUNE. |
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Houston’s Sporting Life:1900-1950 (Images of America Series) $8.62 Houston has been a sports-crazy town since its founding in 1836 when the biggest pastime was watching the horse races held south of what was then the capitol of Texas. By 1900, spectators and athletes alike enjoyed the team sports played at every school in the city and suburbs. Companies competed with one another in baseball, basketball, and track. Boxing gyms dotted the wards, and downtown boasted billiard halls, bowling alleys, and indoor shooting galleries. There was also hunting and fishing, auto racing, swimming, and hockey at the Polar Wave, a mid-century indoor ice rink. This book presents a history of how Houstonians competed, where their recreation took them, and how they enjoyed a potential 12 months of “outdoor” weather. The 20th century was a fun and vibrant time for both fans and participants in the sporting and outdoor life of Houston, and many of today’s fans of sports and local history look back on Houston’s sporting past with a sense of nostalgia. |
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How to Make it to the NBA: A More Realistic Approach $3.21 “From the playgrounds of America, to the shores of Europe and beyond, the dream to play basketball is alive and well.”For many young players, the dreams of fame and fortune associated with the life of an NBA player can be all consuming. In “How to Make it to the NBA; a more realistic Approach,” Brian Banks delivers what his title promises: an in-depth, how-to-look at the realities and rigors of pursuing a career in professional basketball. He makes public the truth that professional basketball is more that just a game – it’s big business with a wide range of positions available on and off the court. This book presents career alternatives to those 99.99% who love the game that for whatever reason, may not make it to the courts. A career in the NBA doesn’t always mean a career playing basketball on the courts. As many athletes have proven, it can also be a platform for ministry.You’ll also find valuable lists and contacts that will help you make well-informed decisions about your life and career. |
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Howard Duff $53 Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Howard Green Duff (November 24, 1913 – July 8, 1990) was an American actor of film, television, stage, and radio.Duff was born in Charleston, Washington, now a part of Bremerton. He graduated from Roosevelt High School in Seattle in 1932 where he began acting in school plays only after he was cut from the basketball team. His first film role was as an inmate in Brute Force. His other movies include The Naked City (1948),All My Sons (1948), Calamity Jane and Sam Bass (1949), Panic in the City (1968), In Search of America (1971), A Wedding (1978) and No Way Out (1987). |
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I Am Charlotte Simmons $1.99 Tom Wolfe, the master social novelist of our time, the spot-on chronicler of all things contemporary and cultural, presents a sensational new novel about life, love, and learning—or the lack of it—amid today’s American colleges.Our story unfolds at fictional Dupont University: those Olympian halls of scholarship housing the cream of America’s youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition . . . Or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a sheltered freshman from North Carolina. But Charlotte soon learns, to her mounting dismay, that for the upper-crust coeds of Dupont, sex, cool, and kegs trump academic achievement every time.As Charlotte encounters the paragons of Dupont’s privileged elite—her roommate, Beverly, a Groton-educated Brahmin in lusty pursuit of lacrosse players; Jojo Johanssen, the only white starting player on Dupont’s godlike basketball team, whose position is threatened by a hotshot black freshman from the projects; the Young Turk of Saint Ray fraternity, Hoyt Thorpe, whose heady sense of entitlement and social domination is clinched by his accidental brawl with a bodyguard for the governor of California; and Adam Geller, one of the Millennial Mutants who run the university’s “independent” newspaper and who consider themselves the last bastion of intellectual endeavor on the sex-crazed, jock-obsessed campus—she is seduced by the heady glamour of acceptance, betraying both her values and upbringing before she grasps the power of being different—and the exotic allure of her own innocence.With his trademark satirical wit and famously sharp eye for telling detail, Wolfe draws on extensive observations at campuses across the country to immortalize the early-21st-century college-going experience. |
